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®fjo  i>torg  of  tljr  Jubtlro 


AN  ACCOUNT  OF  THE  CELEBRATION 
OF  THE 

FIFTIETH  ANNIVERSARY 


OF  THE  BEGINNING  IN  THE 
UNITED  STATES  OF 


Woman’s  Organized  Work  for 
Foreign  Missions 


1860  1910 


Published  by  the 

Central  Committee  on  tije  (Hniteb  ^>tutm  of  JfltSSions. 
£0est  Jfflebforti,  itlassacljusetts,  ::  ::  jtlarcf),  1911 


This  booklet  may  be  ordered  from  M.  H.  Leavis,  West  Medford,  Mass. 
Ten  cents  each.  Reduction  in  quantities. 


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q J2otu  faith  is  t!je  substance  of  things 
Ijopeb  for,  tfje  ebibence  of  things  not  seen. 
<1  Jfor  bp  it  tfje  elbers  obtaineb  a goob 
report.  <JJ  fCtjrougl)  faith  toe  unberstanb 
that  the  toorlbs  toere  frameb  bp  the 
tuorb  of  <£>ob,  so  that  things  tohich  are 
seen  tuere  not  mabe  of  things  tohich 
bo  appear.  <J  Put  bhthout  faith  it  is 
impossible  to  please  him : for  he  that 
cometh  to  (®ob  must  beltebe  that  he  is, 
anb  that  he  is  a retoarber  of  them  that 
biligentlp  Seefe  him.  <1  $3nb  these  all, 
habing  obtaineb  a goob  report  through 
faith,  reteibeb  not  the  promise.  #ob 
habing  probibeb  some  better  thing  for 
us,  that  tljep  bhthout  us  Sljoulb  not  be 
mabe  perfect. 


jforetoorti 


Central  Committee  on  tfje  (Hnttel)  is>tubp  of  fflissions 


Mrs.  Henry  W.  Peabody,  Chairman 


Miss  E.  Harriet  Stanwood 
Congregational  House,  Boston 


Beverly,  Mass. 

Miss  Rachel  Lowrie 


Mrs.  Decatur  M.  Sawyer 


Miss  Grace  T.  Colburn 
Secretary  and  Treasurer 
Newton  Centre,  Mass. 


Witherspoon  Building,  Phila.,  Pa. 


Montclair,  N.  J. 

Mrs.  A.  V.  Pohlman 
5143  Race  St.,  Phila.,  Pa. 


Miss  Elizabeth  C.  Northup 
Waltham,  Mass. 


Miss  Olivia  H.  Lawrence 
25  East  22d  St.,  N.  Y.  City 


The  Central  Committee  on  the  United  Study  of  Missions  issues 
this  little  booklet  prepared  in  haste  to  meet  the  demand  for  some 
account  of  the  Jubilee. 

This  Committee  was  organized  a decade  ago  at  the  time  of  the 
Ecumenical  Conference  in  New  York,  May,  1900.  The  thought  of 
United  Study  first  came  to  Miss  Abbie  B.  Child,  who  was  then  Sec- 
retary of  the  Woman’s  Board  of  Missions  of  the  Congregational 
Church,  and  she  arranged  for  the  meeting  where  it  was  first  pre- 
sented. A group  of  women  gathered  in  the  Calvary  Baptist 
Church,  New  York,  during  the  Conference,  and  determined  to  try 
the  experiment.  Later  the  Central  Committee  was  formed  of  five 
women  appointed  by  their  respective  Boards.  Miss  Child,  Congre- 
gational : Mrs.  Twing,  Protestant  Episcopal ; Mrs.  Gracey,  Metho- 
dist ; Miss  Parsons,  Presbyterian  ; Mrs.  Waterbury,  Baptist,  with  Miss 
Butler,  Methodist,  as  Corresponding  Secretary  and  Treasurer. 

There  have  been  many  changes.  Miss  Child’s  death  occurred 
in  1902,  and  since  then  Mrs.  Peabody,  then  Mrs.  Waterbury,  has 
served  as  chairman.  The  Committee  has  published,  through  The 
Macmillan  Company,  ten  study  books  ; the  eleventh  is  now  in  press. 
About  seven  hundred  thousand  of  these  books  have  been  sold. 

The  Committee  now  numbers  seven,  Lutherans  and  Dutch  Re- 
formed Boards  being  represented.  Through  it  summer  schools  of 
missions  were  organized  and  the  Jubilee  has  been  promoted. 

The  text-book  for  the  coming  year  is  The  Light  of  the  World , 
a comparative  study  of  Christianity  and  non-Christian  religions,  by 
Robert  E.  Speer.  This  is  now  in  press,  and  will  be  published  earl)' 
in  April.  It  may  be  ordered  from  any  Woman’s  Board  of  Foreign 
Missions  or  from  the  headquarters  of  the  Central  Committee,  West 
Medford,  Mass.  The  book  is  written  by  an  expert,  as  Dr.  Speer 


has  had  exceptional  opportunities  for  observation  and  study.  It  is 
admirably  adapted  for  study  classes  and  women’s  societies,  and  is 
absolutely  convincing  in  its  arguments. 

Instead  of  the  small  meeting  in  Calvary  Church  in  1900,  tickets 
have  been  issued  by  the  New  York  Committee  for  the  Jubilee  to 
completely  fill  Carnegie  Hall,  with  four  of  the  largest  churches 
in  its  vicinity,  Broadway  Tabernacle,  Fifth  Avenue  Presbyterian, 
Calvary  Baptist  and  Zion  and  St.  Timothy.  Luncheons  will  be 
served  to  6,000  women  in  the  four  greatest  hotels  of  New  York. 

At  a meeting  in  Carnegie  Hall  the  authors  of  the  books  will  be 
present  and  give  brief  addresses.  With  only  two  exceptions  they 
are  in  this  country. 

Four  hundred  New  York  women  are  enlisted  in  the  preparation 
for  this  vast  undertaking,  the  greatest  meeting  ever  held  by  women. 
Let  us  rejoice  that  it  is  to  honor  God  and  hasten  the  coming  of  his  king- 
dom as  well  as  to  commemorate  the  beautiful  service  of  those  women 
of  faith  who  fifty  years  ago  began  the  work  in  his  name.  It  marks  an 
advance  in  unity,  for  all  denominations  have  worked  together.  It 
has  meant  a great  revival  of  prayer.  It  is  leading  women  to  study 
with  deep  interest  Western  Women  in  Eastern  Lands , the  book  by 
Mrs.  W.  A.  Montgomery,  which  laid  the  foundations  of  the  Jubilee. 
It  has  stimulated  giving,  and  though  the  Jubilee  is  not  yet  completed, 
and  we  cannot  tell  the  results,  it  is  hoped  that  a million  dollars  will 
be  the  special  offering  from  Christian  women  this  year, — a memorial 
to  their  Lord  and  a fund  for  greater  work  for  Christless  women. 

Mrs.  Henry  W.  Peabody,  Chairman. 


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W\)t  i£>torj>  of  tfje  Jubilee 

BY  RACHEL  LOWRIE 


When  the  spiritual  history  of  the  world  shall  be  ex- 
amined, as  we  examine  the  heart  of  a tree  after  its  circles 
have  been  revealed,  the  year  which  saw  both  the  Edin- 
burgh Conference  and  the  Woman’s  Foreign  Missionary 
Jubilee  will  surely  show  a wide  circle  of  growth. 

The  historian,  in  commenting  on  the  source  Jubilee, 
will  say,  “ It  was  a book,  and  organization  did  it.”  The 
mystic  will  say,  “ It  was  a vision,  and  prayer  did  it.”  Both 
are  right,  but  the  latter  supremely  so.  It  was  born  in  the 
hearts  of  praying  women,  and  when  it  grew  to  such  pro- 
digious proportions  it  would  have  daunted  any  but  those  of 
large  faith.  At  the  heart  of  the  movement  everywhere 
was  the  atmosphere  of  prayer.  In  many  of  the  centers 
large  numbers  of  women  had  been  praying  for  the  success 
of  the  Jubilee  weeks  before  a committee  had  been  formed 
or  anyone  had  been  asked  to  do  a stroke  of  work.  Some 
of  the  largest  outlays  of  money  have  been  in  the  printing 
of  great  numbers  of  prayer  cards,  the  demand  for  which 
seemed  to  be  insatiable.  God  honored  the  demands  made 
upon  him,  and  to  his  name  be  the  glory. 

No  better  example  of  the  power  of  history  need  be 
given  than  the  inevitableness  of  the  Jubilee  celebration, 
once  the  history  of  woman’s'  organized  work  for  foreign 
missions  was  known.  The  book,  Western  Women  in  Eastern 
Lands , was  no  sooner  written  and  read  in  manuscript  than 
there  was  vouchsafed  to  Mrs.  Henry  W.  Peabody,  Chair- 
man of  the  Central  Committee  on  United  Study,  a vision 
to  which  she  was  not  disobedient, — no  less  a thing  than  a 
celebration  which  should  stretch  from  shore  to  shore,  and 
recount  God’s  goodness  through  these  years  since  he  ad- 
mitted the  women’s  societies  into  partnership  with  him  in 
his  world-wide  work.  Helen  Barrett  Montgomery,  the 
gifted  author  of  the  book  that  started  the  Jubilee,  caught 
fire  with  the  idea,  rewrote  the  last  chapter  under  the  influ- 


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ence  of  the  vision,  and  the  book  became  a campaign  doc- 
ument, one  edition  following  another  in  quick  succession, 
till  now  nearly  100,000  copies  have  been  sold. 

Given  the  vision,  the  book  and  the  leaders — would 
there  be  a response  from  the  ranks?  Or  would  history 
repeat  itself,  and,  just  as  Mrs.  Doremus  had  been  ready  to 
espouse  the  cause  of  woman’s  work  for  foreign  missions 
twenty-six  years  before  the  American  public  could  endure 
the  idea,  would  Mrs.  Peabody  and  Mrs.  Montgomery  see 
the  Jubilee  year  irrevocably  slip  by  with  no  celebration  to 
hallow  it?  One  trembles  to  think  how  natural  that  would 
have  been,  and  what  we  should  have  missed  had  we  not 
also  caught  lire ! 

Lett  to  ourselves,  we  women  of  the  foreign  mission- 
ary societies  would  probably  have  held  a precise  little 
birthday  party,  to  which  only  the  habitues  of  missionary 
societies  would  have  been  invited;  but  such  was  not  at  all 
the  idea  of  the  United  Study  Committee.  It  contemplated 
a gigantic  reception,  with  the  United  States  as  a drawing- 
room. The  Reception  Committee  was  drawn  from  thirty- 
two  cities ; the  receiving  days  were  at  intervals  from 
October  1 2th  to  March  30th  ; refreshments  were  to  be 
served  in  the  largest  halls  to  be  found,  and  the  invited  guests 
were  the  women  of  the  evangelical  churches  of  the  United 
States  ! No  fonder  of  demonstrations,  perhaps,  than  are 
some  of  the  rest  of  us,  the  Central  Committee  nevertheless 
believed  that,  after  fatty  vears  of  quiet,  effective  demonstra- 
tion in  foreign  lands,  the  time  had  come  for  a national 
celebration  at  home. 

In  the  spring  of  1910  the  larger  Women’s  Boards  of 
Foreign  Missions  were  asked  if  they  would  co-operate  in  a 
Jubilee  celebration.  We  Board  officers  remember  the  day 
the  question  was  brought  to  us.  We  gave  it  careful  con- 
sideration, decided  to  answer  in  the  affirmative,  and  then 
promptly  forgot  all  about  it.  In  the  fall  it  was  upon  us 
before  we  had  time  to  take  off  our  hats  from  our  summer 
vacations!  We  were  gently  reminded  that  it  was  time  to 
organize  a Committee  on  Preparation,  and  immediately 
the  telegrams  began  coming  in  from  the  West,  showing 
that  the  Year  of  Jubilee  had  indeed  come,  and  was  even 
now  being  celebrated  upon  the  Pacific  Coast. 

They  labored  against  great  odds,  those  Western  sisters 
of  ours,  with  their  long  distances  and  their  short  time  tor 


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preparation!  A Western  Extension  Committee,  with 
headquarters  in  Chicago,  was  needed  to  do  for  the  West 
what  the  Central  Committee,  with  Mrs.  Peabody  at  its 
head,  was  to  do  for  the  Eastern  circuit.  Such  a committee 
was  formed,  with  Mrs.  Edmund  Osbornson  as  Chairman 
and  Mrs.  R.  H.  Pooley  as  Secretary,  and  immediately  con- 
nected itself  with  the  utmost  bounds  of  its  territory  by 
means  of  a wireless  message.  That  is,  Airs.  Osbornson 
traveled  as  far  as  the  Pacific  Coast,  making  herself  the 
message  to  the  newly-formed  local  committees. 

The  Western  Extension  Committee  is  now  reorgan- 
ized into  a larger  committee  for  continuation  work,  with 
presidents  and  secretaries  of  Boards  added,  and  in  a mas- 
terly way  is  conserving  the  enthusiasm  by  transmuting  it 
into  service. 

Those  who  questioned  if  this  great  thing  could  be 
wrought  in  so  short  a time  saw  that  the  completeness  of 
the  women’s  organizations  provided  the  only  medium  nec- 
essary. Having  been  faithful  through  the  years  in  that 
which  was  least,  they  were,  without  knowing  it,  fully 
equal  to  the  great  thing  when  it  arrived. 

Von  Moltke,  in  order  to  start  his  war  machine,  had 
to  do  only  one  thing — to  pull  open  Drawer  6 in  Cabinet 
B,  and  taking  from  a package  of  papers  a little  slip,  tele- 
graph a message  to  a certain  destination,  and  within  ten 
minutes  the  legend  of  the  imperial  army  began  to  unroll. 
Every  man  was  at  his  post,  and  each  knew  what  to  do. 

Fifty  years  hence,  when  wars  shall  be  no  more,  and 
the  ploughshares  of  peace  shall  be  as  perfectly  organized 
as  were  von  Moltke’s  swords;  when  the  next  Jubilee  shall 
await  the  elect  lady  who  shall  “touch  the  button,”  may  it 
be  even  more  swiftly  and  easily  done  than  it  was  in  this 
year  of  our  Lord  1910-1  i ! 

But,  leaving  the  future  and  peering  into  the  past,  we 
see  that  this  Jubilee  movement  did  not  begin  on  October 
1 2th  in  Oakland,  Cal.,  nor  ten  years  ago  at  the  Ecumenical 
Conference,  when  the  Central  Committee  on  United  Study 
was  formed,  hut  fifty  years  ago  in  the  parlor  of  Airs.  T.  C. 
Doremus  in  New  York,  where  was  organized  the  first 
woman’s  society  to  receive  a charter — The  Woman’s  Union 
Missionary  Society.  “Launched  on  the  eve  of  the  Civil 
War  by  persons  inexperienced  in  public  affairs,  without 
financial  backing,  this  corporate  body  is  now  one  of  forty 


Boards,  with  57,433  foreign  missionary  societies  and  aux- 
iliaries in  the  United  States  and  Canada,  which  last  year 
raised  $3,328,840.”  In  this  interdenominational  school 
of  missions  our  mothers  and  grandmothers  learned  their 
first  lessons  before  it  occurred  to  them  to  form  Boards 
within  the  limits  of  their  own  Christian  communions. 
Th  us,  while  none  of  our  denominational  Boards  have  yet 
attained  to  their  fiftieth  year,  we  unite  to  celebrate  our 
alma  mater’s  jubilee,  which  is  also  our  own. 

Oakland,  Cal.,  after  only  three  weeks  of  preparation, 
was  ready  on  October  1 2th  to  take  the  place  assigned  to 
her  in  the  very  front  of  this  three-thousand-mile  jubilee 
Pageant.  Portland,  Ore.,  followed  with  delegates  from 
twelve  cities  in  attendance.  It  was  at  Seattle  that  for  the 
first  time  the  number  of  women  at  the  mass  meeting 
reached  two  thousand.  Denver’s  plans  were  so  masterly 
in  conception  and  so  precisely  formulated  that,  at  the  re- 
quest of  other  cities,  they  were  tvpewritten  and  sent  on  to 
be  a blessing  and  help  to  many  a local  committee  in  the  East. 
Lincoln,  Neb.,  finding  a vacancy  in  the  tour  of  the  jubilee 
party,  telegraphed  to  engage  them,  and  after  three  days’ 
preparation  achieved  the  following:  four  meetings  on 
Sunday,  students’  meeting  of  one  thousand,  mass  meeting 
of  fifteen  hundred,  enthusiastic  Workers’  Conference,  and 
three  impromptu  meetings  in  club,  drawing-room  and 
church. 

But  words  would  fail  me  to  tell  of  Omaha,  Kansas 
City,  St.  Louis,  St.  Paul,  Minneapolis,  Milwaukee, 
Chicago,  Indianapolis,  Cincinnati  and  Detroit,  to  say 
nothing  of  the  meetings  at  Northwestern  University  and 
De  Pauw  University.  Their  noble  history  is  written  else- 
where. During  this  whole  Western  circuit  Mrs.  Peabody, 
Chairman  of  the  United  Study  Committee,  sat  at  home 
and  directed  the  jubilee.  We  have  seen  how  at  her  sug- 
gestion the  nucleus  of  a committee  came  together  in  each 
of  the  centers  and  grew  quickly  into  large  bodies  of  women 
capable  of  handling  the  intricacies  of  city  conventions.  A 
jubilee  party  of  speakers,  headed  bv  Mrs.  Montgomery, 
arrived  at  each  city  in  time  to  address  the  crowds  awaiting 
them.  Then  at  a preconcerted  signal,  these  multitudes 
drawn  from  many  Christian  communions  would  separate 
for  one  session  into  their  distinctive  denominations,  where 
would  he  found  at  exactly  the  right  moment  their  own 


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Board  officers  waiting  to  instruct  them  in  the  work  needing 
their  aid.  Only  in  these  church  rallies  was  there  an 
opportunity  given  to  contribute  toward  the  Million  Dollar 
Love  Offering  which  the  Christian  women  of  the  United 
States  were  planning  to  make  over  and  above  their  usual 
gifts.  Thus  the  money  flowed  quite  naturally  through  the 
usual  channels  into  the  separate  Boards  of  Missions,  to  be 
used  by  them  in  their  world-wide  work. 

From  November  21st  to  January  23d  there  was  a pause 
in  order  to  celebrate  Thanksgiving,  Christmas  and  New 
Year’s.  Those  who  had  been  praying  that  the  Jubilee 
party  might,  in  spite  of  the  strain  of  continuous  travel  and 
public  speaking,  be  kept  in  perfect  health,  had  the  satis- 
faction of  hearing  the  speakers  say  that  they  came  out  of  the 
Western  campaign  stronger  than  when  they  had  entered  it. 
Just  here  let  us  count  up  our  riches  in  that  group  of 
speakers  who  moved  from  city  to  city. 

Mrs.  Helen  Barrett  Montgomery,  author  of  Western 
Women  in  Eastern  Lands.  For  ten  years  she  served  on 
the  Commission  of  Education  in  Rochester.  At  one  time 
President  of  the  Federation  of  Clubs  in  New  York  State 
she  is  now  and  has  been  for  twenty  years  since  its  founding, 
president  of  an  active  civic  club  in  Rochester.  A trustee 
of  Wellesley  College. 

Dr.  Mary  Riggs  Noble:  educated  in  Colorado 

College,  studied  two  years  in  Europe,  graduated  from  the 
Woman’s  Medical  College  of  Pennsylvania.  Has  been  for 
five  years  a missionary  at  her  own  charges  in  India.  Vice 
Principal  of  the  North  India  School  of  Medicine  in  Lud- 
hianna.  Dr.  Noble  will  return  to  India  this  year. 

Miss  Jennie  V.  Hughes  : educated  in  Rutgers  Woman’s 
College,  New  York  City.  For  three  years  Field  Secretary 
of  the  New  York  Branch  of  the  Woman’s  Foreign  Mis- 
sionary Society  of  the  Methodist  Church.  Went  to  China 
in  1905  and  is  now  home  on  furlough.  Is  head  of  one  of 
the  largest  schools  in  China  for  training  native  teachers 
and  Christian  workers. 

Miss  Florence  Miller  : born  in  Louisville,  graduated 
from  the  Curry  School,  Boston,  and  took  three  years’  post- 
graduate work  in  English.  For  five  years  Interdenomina- 
tional Secretary  of  the  Kentucky  Missionary  Union,  and 
for  two  years  doing  active  work  for  the  mountaineers  of 
Kentucky.  Since  then  Field  Secretary  of  the  Christian 


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Woman’s  Board  of  Missions,  with  its  headquarters  in 
Indianapolis. 

Mrs.  Etta  D.  Marden,  of  Constantinople,  in  charge  of 
the  Congregational  mission  work  of  Gedik  Pasha  in  Old 
Stamboul.  Under  the  new  conditions  existing  in  Turkey 
this  center  offers  wonderful  opportunities  to  enlarge  the 
work  for  the  various  nationalities  crowded  into  the  old 
part  of  the  cosmopolitan  city. 

Mrs.  Kate  Boggs  Schaffer,  graduate  of  Shepherdson 
College,  Ohio.  She  was  the  first  single  lady  missionary  of 
the  Lutheran  Church  of  America  to  be  sent  to  the  foreign 
held — South  India,  thirty  years  ago.  Married  after  her 
return  to  Rev.  J.  F.  Schaffer,  D.D.  For  ten  years  Secre- 
tary of  the  General  Committee  of  the  Woman’s  Home 
and  Foreign  Missionary  Society  of  the  General  Synod 
Lutheran  Church.  Editor  of  Lutheran  s Woman's  Work 
and  Woman’s  Department  in  Lutheran  Church  Work. 


The  Eastern  circuit  was  begun  at  Cleveland  on  Jan- 
uary 23,1911.  Although  the  enthusiastic  and  flattering 
Jubilee  party  found  something  which  they  declared  to  be 
“ record-breaking  ” in  each  center,  it  is  quite  true  that  the 
luncheon  in  Gray’s  Armory,  Cleveland,  was  the  largest  up 
to  that  time,  2,150  tickets  having  been  sold. 

Louisville  was  triumphant  in  spite  of  rain.  Nashville 
had  the  real  Jubilee  Singers  to  sing  for  them.  The 
Jubilee  at  the  Nation’s  Capital  was  unique  and  must  be 
described  elsewhere.  Baltimore  extended  true  Southern 
hospitality.  Richmond  in  two  weeks  achieved  a successful 
Jubilee. 

Pittsburg  set  for  itself  a glorious  task  in  that,  among 
many  other  aims  was  that  of  reaching  $100,000  in  its 
offering.  Unweariedly  it  worked  and,  in  the  size  of  its 
gifts,  it  far  outstrips  other  centers.  Buffalo  and  Phila- 
delphia became  record  cities  on  luncheons.  New  England 
marched  triumphantly  in  the  procession. 

All  honor  to  the  noble  women  of  the  local  committees 
in  all  these  thirty-two  cities!  And  to  the  unnumbered 
host  of  helpers  they  drew  into  the  work ! It  does  not 
subtract  from,  hut  add  to  the  honor  due  them  that  they 
enjoyed  the  effort.  It  was  in  many  cases  the  hardest  work 


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they  had  ever  done  in  their  lives,  but  it  was  done  with  a 
swing  and  a will,  and  finally  with  an  adoring  amazement 
that  the  Lord  should  entrust  so  great  a thing  to  their  weak 
hands.  Representative  women  from  many  Christian  bodies 
made  up  these  committees,  and  in  the  rapid  work  which 
fell  to  them  there  was  little  time  to  remember  that  they 
were  named  by  different  names.  They  only  knew  that 
they  were  doing  the  most  exhilarating  work  of  their  lives, 
and  that  they  found  undreamed-of  riches  of  resource  within 
their  ranks.  There  was  little  chance  to  talk  of  unity ; 
they  were  united,  it  seemed  most  natural  and  was  therefore 
lost  sight  of  in  the  multiplicity  of  demands. 

Must  we  divide  again  till  the  next  Jubilee  brings  us 
together?  No,  for  in  nearly  every  center  has  been  left  a 
committee  representing  the  evangelical  churches,  to  handle 
such  missionary  matters  as  can  be  better  adjusted  by  us 
collectively  than  by  our  separate  Boards.  When  the  next 
Jubilee  arrives  our  children  will  find  the  “nucleus  com- 
mittees ” ready  to  their  hand,  as  well  as  many  other  helps 
of  which  we  know  nothing.  Already  some  mothers  have 
instructed  their  daughters  to  work  for  the  i 960  celebration 
as  they  themselves  have  worked  for  this,  passing  on  to  them 
scrapbooks  of  Jubiliana  to  help  them. 

Thus  “ one  generation  shall  praise  thy  works  to 
another,”  and  we  women  rejoice  to  be  alive  when  our 
generation  has  been  called  upon  to  offer  so  notable  a dem- 
onstration of  praise  as  is  this  Woman’s  National  Foreign 
Missionary  Jubilee. 


MRS.  WILLIAM  A.  MONTGOMERY 


^>nap  ls>f)cits  of  tfje  Jubilee  ^artp 


“Will  you  go  to  the  Jubilee  meetings  if  the  Central 
Committee  can  plan  them?  ” we  asked  Mrs.  Montgomery. 
“ I am  not  sure  that  I ought  to  be  away  from  home  so 
long.  I will  consult  my  husband,  and  he  must  settle  it.” 
We  waited  anxiously  the  letter  with  the  decision. 
“ W.  says,  ‘ If  our  missionaries  can  do  what  they  have  to, 
he  has  no  right  to  withhold  me  if  I can  help.1  ” And  so 
the  way  for  the  Jubilee  was  opened  by  an  unselfish  man 
with  the  spirit  of  a missionary.  The  little  party  started  at 
Oakland,  October  12th, — Mrs.  W.  A.  Montgomery,  Miss 
Ella  D.  MacLaurin  and  Miss  Florence  Miller. 

Of  Mrs.  Montgomery  there  is  but  one  opinion, — a 


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MISS  MACLAURIN 


woman  of  great  spiritual  and  equally  great  mental  powers, 
charming  in  personality,  and  as  selfless  as  it  is  possible  for 
mortal  to  be.  She  throws  herself  with  untiring  energy  into 
her  work,  and  her  gifts  as  a speaker  backed  by  her  sincere 
devotion  convert  many  to  the  mission  cause.  “What  this 
woman  has  done  shall  be  told  as  a memo- 
rial of  her.”  From  the  Pacific  to  the 
Atlantic  in  every  Jubilee  her  power  has 
been  felt. 

Miss  Ella  D.  MacLaurin,  of  good  old 
Scotch  blood,  is  Secretary  of  the  Baptist 
Board  of  the  West,  and  is  well  known  East 
and  West  as  a speaker  of  great  power  and  a 
mighty  and  efficient  organizer. 

Miss  Florence  Miller,  Secretary  of  the 
Woman’s  Society  of  the  Christian  Church, 
a strong,  apostolic  band  of  women,  has 
unusual  ability  in  presenting  the  practical 
side  of  the  work.  The  party  expects  her  to 
give  plans  and  policies,  which  she  does  in  a 
masterly  manner.  No  one  can  tell  the  story 
of  the  Jubilee  quite  as  Miss  Miller  does,  for 
she  has  been  in  every  meeting. 

Mrs.  Etta  Doane  Marden  brings  a 
strong  appeal  for  the  Woman’s  Board  of  the 
Congregational  Church.  She  pleads  for  the 
school  for  girls,  Gedik  Pasha,  Constanti- 
nople. In  spite  of  all  the  handicaps  in  a 
Moslem  land,  she  is  full  of  optimism,  and 
gives  herself  here  with  the  same  fidelity  as 
in  Turkey  to  her  educational  work. 

At  Denver  the  party  was  strengthened 
by  Dr.  Mary  Riggs  Noble,  the  beloved  physician,  skillful 
surgeon  and  member  of  the  faculty  of  the  Woman’s 
Medical  College  of  India.  Her  clinical  footnotes  are 
intensely  interesting  and  illuminating.  With  the  tre- 
mendous needs  of  her  own  work  pressing  heavily  on 
her  heart,  she  makes  no  appeal  for  that  work,  but  turns 
all  her  force  into  the  larger  appeal.  She  delayed  her 
return  to  India  at  the  request  of  the  Central  Committee, 
and  by  the  kind  permission  of  the  Presbyterian  Woman’s 
Board  of  Philadelphia,  to  do  this  work.  Surely  in  this 
land  of  rich  women  and  perfectly  equipped  hospitals  some 


MISS  MILLER 


MRS.  MARDEN 


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one  will  lift  her  burden  before  she  leaves.  Cholera,  plague, 
smallpox,  are  not  easy  to  face  without  isolation  wards. 

Miss  Jennie  V.  Hughes,  of  China,  joined  the  party  at 
Cleveland  for  the  Southern  and  Eastern  tour.  Her  devo- 
tion to  China  leads  her  to  give  herself 
unsparingly.  Her  descriptions  and  appeals 
are  irresistible,  and  her  genuine,  Methodist 
fervor  makes  her  always  a most  touching 
and  effective  speaker. 

M rs.  Elmore  has  been  with  the  party 
at  many  Jubilees  East  and  West,  and  does 
for  India  what  Miss  Hughes  does  for  China, 
giving  vivid  pictures  of  need,  with  lovely 
little  womanly  touches  that  go  straight  to  the  heart  of 
women. 

Dr.  Carleton  joined  the  group  at  Pittsburg  when  the 
avalanche  of  meetings  threatened  to  overwhelm  the  few 
speakers.  She  gives  a glimpse  of  physical 
need  and  medical  relief  in  China,  and  has 
on  her  heart  the  special  need  of  a medical 
college  for  Chinese  women  in  Pekin  to  be 
supported  by  all  denominations. 

Deaconess  Phelps,  a missionary  of  the 
Woman's  Auxiliary  of  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Church,  brings  also  a beautiful  story 
of  help  and  uplift  for  girls  in  China,  where 
she  has  been  for  five  years. 

In  this  Eastern  circuit  plain,  ordinary  Jubilees  of  two  or 
three  thousand  women,  with  luncheons  of  1,000  to  1,500,  be- 
came a thing  of  the  past.  “Overflow,  simultaneous,  parallel” 
mass  meetings,  with  thousands  clamoring  for  admittance, 
luncheons  of  2,200  in  Cleveland,  2,400  in  Philadelphia  and 
Buffalo,  4,800  in  Pittsburg,  with  a tidal  wave  of  enthusiasm, 
demanded  more  and  more  of  the  little  party.  Three  or 
four  audiences,  four  or  five  drawing-rooms,  denominational 
meetings,  children’s  story  hour,  schoolgirls,  nurses,  busy 
women,  all  demanded  immediate  attention,  and  produced 
the  following  limerick  from  Dr.  Noble, — 

The  Jubilee  troupe  superfine 

Was  asked,  “Do  you  speak  and  what  time?” 

They  replied,  “ Ten,  eleven, 

Three,  four,  five  and  seven, 

Six,  eight  and  a quarter  to  nine.” 


I)R.  CARLETON 


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And  to  speak  nine  times  was  a fair  day’s  work  for  these 
busy  women.  This  with  night  travel  and  social  affairs  might 
have  caused  the  flesh  to  fail,  but  the  spirit  never  faltered, 
and  Jubilee  grace  and  strength  and  voice  were  given  anew. 
Time  fails  us  to  tell  of  the  beloved  secretaries  and  mem- 
bers of  Boards  who  have  traveled  with  the  party  West, 
South  and  East.  Miss  Crane,  Miss  Ellis,  Dr.  Shaffer, 
Miss  Emery,  Miss  Lindley,  Miss  Stanwood,  Miss  Lamson, 
Miss  Calder,  Miss  Butler,  Miss  Milliken,  Mrs.  Poolev, 
Mrs.  Peabody,  Mrs.  Silverthorn,  Mrs.  Weitzel,  Mrs.  Jones, 
with  others,  have  been  at  some  of  these  meetings. 


DR.  MARY  RIGGS  NOBLE 


Not  one  has  been  ill  or  failed  to  keep  her  appoint- 
ments. There  has  been  no  accident  or  delay,  the  weather 
has  been  with  very  few  exceptions  real  Jubilee  weather. 
There  has  been  a deep  conviction  in  the  hearts  of  the  party 
that  an  unseen  Presence  has  ever  gone  before,  tenderly 
preparing  the  way,  and  to  Him  who  called  them  and  has 
spoken  through  them  the  members  of  the  Jubilee  party  offer 
grateful  acknowledgment.  As  they  go  back  to  their  work 
in  other  lands  or  among  the  churches  of  their  own  land, 
we  pray  from  our  hearts,  “God  bless  them,  everyone.” 


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Reports  bp  Hocal  Committees; 

The  Jubilee  began  in  Oakland,  California,  October  12th. 
There  were  many  delays  and  changes  of  date,  and  not  until  three 
weeks  before  the  opening  day  of  the  Jubilee  was  the  appointment 
decided.  The  committee  in  Oakland  was  formed  through  the  efforts 
of  Mrs.  Edmund  Osbornson,  Chairman  of  the  Western  Extension 
Committee,  who  had  come  out  to  the  Pacific  Coast  to  complete 
arrangements  for  the  Western  series.  The  spirit  of  a pioneer  was 
back  of  this.  In  the  committee  as  they  talked  of  the  difficulties  of 
organizing  committees  at  so  great  a distance,  Mrs.  Moses  Smith 
proposed  that  an  advance  agent  be  sent  to  further  the  work.  This 
was  done  and  its  wisdom  has  been  fully  justified. 

“Why  have  it  in  the  West  first?  Do  it  in  the  East  and  show 
us  how,”  said  some  doubters.  “ We  need  your  splendid  courage  and 
energy  as  our  example  and  inspiration,  and  we  must  cover  the  North- 
west in  the  fall  before  heavy  storms  come  to  impede  railroad  travel, ’’ 
were  the  reasons  given.  God  has  surely  led  all  the  way.  The  fol- 
lowing accounts  given  by  chairmen  or  secretaries  of  local  Jubilee 
committees  indicate  the  blessing  He  has  given  to  the  devoted  efforts 
of  Christian  women. 


©ablaut)  Jubilee 

Only  a brief  telegraphic  report  has  reached  us,  but  it  tells  of 
drawing-room  meetings  in  Oakland  and  San  Francisco,  a luncheon 
for  500  women,  a mass  meeting  of  1,000,  the  same  features  that 
marked  the  later  Jubilees.  To  Oakland  belongs  the  honor  of 
being  the  brave  pioneer  in  the  Jubilee. 


®lje  iPortlanb,  ©re.,  Jubilee 

The  Foreign  Mission  Jubilee  held  in  Portland  October  17th 
and  1 8th  was  a grand  meeting.  The  conference  leaders  were  Mrs. 
Helen  Montgomery,  Mrs.  Teunis  Hamlin,  Miss  Ella  MacLaurin 
and  Miss  Florence  Miller.  The  attendance  was  eight  hundred, 
representing  twelve  denominations.  Nine  missionaries  of  various 
Boards  were  on  the  program.  The  denominational  rallies  resulted 
in  one  life  offered  and  $4,000  extra  gifts  pledged.  There  was  no 
luncheon,  but  on  1'uesday  afternoon  a reception,  after  which  all 
voluntarily  gathered  again  to  hear  Mrs.  Montgomery  on  study 
classes.  The  inspiring  motto  was  “ Christ  for  all,”  for  Christ 
was  the  keynote  of  the  entire  meeting. 

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Seattle  3Tut)tltc 

Washington  State  Jubilee  meetings  were  held  in  Seattle, 
October  19-20,  in  First  Presbyterian  Church,  and  were  the  largest 
and  most  successful  missionary  meetings  ever  held  in  this  city.  All 
denominations  worked  as  one  and  the  spiritual  uplift  to  us  all  has 
been  very  real.  We  had  so  little  time  for  preparation  that  we 
could  not  depend  upon  our  own  efforts  and  we  just  talked  every- 
thing over  constantly  with  God.  The  First  Church  is  very  large, 
and  has  so  many  class  rooms,  men’s  parlors,  ladies’  parlors  and 
executive  parlors  that  we  were  able  to  have  our  rallies  under  the 
one  roof,  as  well  as  our  Jubilee  luncheon  in  the  ample  dining  room. 
We  had  the  feeling  of  one  large  united  family  during  the  entire 
Jubilee. 

Mrs.  Helen  Barrett  Montgomery,  Miss  Ella  D.  Mac- 
Laurin,  Miss  Florence  Miller,  Mrs.  Teunis  S.  Hamlin  and  Miss 
Rubie  Weyburn  were  the  principal  speakers. 

Our  Jubilee  opened  Wednesday  afternoon  with  a workers’ 
conference,  600  ladies  present.  That  evening  Mrs.  Teunis 
Hamlin  gave  the  principal  address.  Thursday  morning  there  was 
a parlor  conference  at  the  home  of  Mrs.  C.  H.  Black,  where 
over  two  hundred  ladies  listened  to  Mrs.  Montgomery’s  address 
on  “Woman’s  Debt  to  the  Christian  Religion.” 

At  noon  one  thousand  and  twenty-five  ladies  sat  down  to- 
gether at  a luncheon,  which  was  prepared  and  served  by  the  Ladies’ 
Aid  Society  of  First  Church,  assisted  by  81  young  lady  waitresses. 
Arrangements  for  the  serving  were  so  perfect  that  in  forty-five 
minutes  after  seating  luncheon  was  finished.  The  dining  room, 
as  the  guests  entered,  was  a beautiful  sight.  A boutonniere  was 
laid  at  each  plate.  Mrs.  E.  V.  Shaylor,  wife  of  the  rector  of  St. 
Mark’s  Church,  returned  thanks.  Following  luncheon,  toasts  were 
responded  to  by  five  ladies  on  “ Lessons  in  Unity  from  the  Past 
Fifty  Y ears.” 

Thursday  evening  service  was  very  precious  and  inspiring.  Two 
thousand  women  and  three  hundred  men  were  in  attendance,  and 
listened  with  intense  interest  to  Mrs.  Montgomery’s  address. 

Each  of  the  eight  committees  was  composed  of  members  from 
eight  to  eleven  different  denominations.  The  spirit  of  unity  with 
which  all  the  preliminary  work  was  accomplished  has  shown  us 
how  truly  united  we  are  in  our  one  object  of  rescuing  and  saving 
the  round  world  for  Christ.  Such  harmony  among  some  one 


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hundred  women  was  beautiful  to  behold  at  every  general  committee 
meeting. 

There  is  already  a demand  for  information  upon  mission  lines. 
Study  classes  are  being  organized  and  members  added  to  those 
already  at  work.  The  sale  of  Western  Women  in  Eastern  Lands 
during  the  meetings  was  very  large.  We  believe  this  is  the  begin- 
ning of  an  aroused  new  interest  in  missions. 


fEfte  Qenbeu  jubilee 

[The  remarkable  organization  and  work  of  the  Denver  Committee 
has  led  us  to  give  it  a special  place  in  the  history.  From  Denver  went  out 
a model  of  planning  which  has  been  of  great  value  to  other  Committees.] 

The  Denver  Central  Committee  of  the  Woman’s  National 
Foreign  Missionary  jubilee  was  organized  September  14,  1910. 

Never  did  a band  of  women  enter  upon  a work  with  less  self- 
confidence  or  a deeper  conviction  of  its  fruitlessness  unless  directed 
by  a Power  greater  than  their  own.  The  appointed  dates  were 
barely  six  weeks  away,  committees  were  to  be  selected  and  the 
entire  campaign  outlined.  There  were  no  glad  telegrams  to  cheer 
the  doubting  heart  or  quicken  the  indifferent,  no  electric  bulletins 
measuring  the  cumulative  power  of  a nation-wide  movement. 
They  felt  themselves  pioneers  in  an  uncharted  path.  Their  one 
human  asset  was  a strong,  interdenominational  organization  in 
both  city  and  state,  where,  working  together  with  a total  absence 
of  denominationalism  or  self-seeking,  each  had  learned  to  sup- 
plement her  own  weak  points  with  the  strength  and  experience  of 
the  others. 

The  entire  committee,  when  constituted,  consisted  of  more 
than  one  hundred  and  fifty  women,  serving  on  eleven  sub-commit- 
tees. The  diverse  character  of  these  committees  is  shown  by  the 
fact  that  in  their  ranks  were  numbered  formal  representatives  of 
eleven  denominations,  the  wives  of  many  of  the  leading  pastors  of 
the  city,  the  wife  of  a Methodist  Bishop,  the  daughter  of  one  Epis- 
copal Bishop  and  the  sister  of  another,  the  daughter  of  the  Dean 
of  the  Cathedral,  the  State  President  of  the  W.  C.  1'.  U.,  the 
President  of  the  Board  of  the  local  Y.  W.  C.  A.,  the  Chairman 
of  the  Territorial  Committee,  their  Student  Secretary  and  two 
members  of  their  National  Board,  Mrs.  Sarah  Platt  Decker,  the 


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honored  ex-President  of  the  General  Federation  of  Women’s 
Clubs,  the  Vice  President  of  the  Woman’s  Club  of  Denver,  the 
President  of  the  Association  of  Collegiate  Alumnae,  the  wife  of 
the  Governor  and  of  an  ex-Governor,  the  State  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction,  a member  of  the  City’s  Board  ot  Education, 
officers  of  the  Tuesday  Musical  Club  and  the  Mothers’  Congress. 

The  singleness  of  purpose  with  which  the  Jubilee  was  given 
first  place  by  all,  during  those  six  weeks  of  preparation  is  evidenced 
by  the  minutes  that  record  thirty-one  meetings  of  the  Executive 
Committee,  fourteen  of  them,  including  the  chairmen  of  sub-com- 
mittees, while  six  of  the  latter  were  all-day  sessions.  In  addition, 
each  sub-committee  held  frequent  independent  meetings,  at  least 
one  in  each  case  being  of  a social  character. 

Four  times  the  entire  Committee  Membership  was  entertained 
in  four  of  Denver’s  most  beautiful  and  hospitable  homes.  Many 
felt  that  these  social  gatherings  had  a large  part  in  arresting  the 
attention  of  the  city,  in  fusing  many  elements  into  solidarity,  and 
in  massing  their  influence  toward  a definite  end.  The  spirit  of 
comradeship  engendered  in  those  hours  of  fellowship  and  in  those 
others  when  perplexities  were  shared  and  burdens  lightened,  will 
never  lose  its  magnetic  power.  Women  of  widely  diverse  interests 
still  stop  for  warm  hand  clasp  at  a chance  meeting  and  go  on 
quickened  to  higher  things,  because  ot  the  subtle,  vivifying 
influence  which  their  common  memory  evokes. 

The  press  of  the  city  and  throughout  the  state  was  generous 
and  appreciative,  and  published  many  columns  of  matter,  profusely 
illustrated.  Space  in  church  bulletins  was  freely  given  for  weeks. 
Many  pastors  preached  special  sermons  on  Woman’s  Part  and 
Responsibility  in  Mission  Work,  one  closing  with  an  offer  of  one 
hundred  copies  of  Western  Women  in  Eastern  Lands  to  be  given 
to  the  women  of  his  congregation. 

The  Publicity  Committee  worked  with  unflagging  devotion  ; 
they  distributed  thousands  of  printed  pages  and  sent  out  hundreds 
of  typewritten  and  personal  letters  to  ministers,  to  nurses,  to 
physicians  and  to  Women’s  Clubs.  They  report  four  hundred 
addresses  under  their  direction,  presenting  the  Jubilee  in  Sunday 
morning  pulpits,  before  Sunday  schools  and  church  prayer  meet- 
ings, Missionary  Societies,  Women’s  Clubs  and  conventions  of 
every  kind.  The  hours  spent  at  the  telephone  and  in  tedious 
street  car  journeys  across  the  city  could  not  be  numbered;  they 
seemed  to  count  time,  money  and  service  not  sacrifice  but  privi- 
lege. The  Young  Women’s  Committee  conducted  its  campaign 
along  the  same  lines  and  with  the  same  fidelity.  The  Deputation 


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Committee  sent  speakers  in  groups  of  from  two  to  five  throughout 
the  state,  who  presented  the  Jubilee  at  luncheons,  at  receptions 
and  at  women’s  mass  meetings. 

It  is  needless  to  say  that  the  real  source  of  power  for  the 
hours  of  service  was  in  those  quiet  times  when  hundreds  of  women 
pursuant  of  the  topics  outlined  in  the  “ Call  to  Prayer,”  issued  by 
the  committee,  joined  in  daily  petition  for  strength  and  guidance 
in  the  task;  and  in  the  “Upper  room”  at  the  church,  where 
before  the  Jubilee  and  throughout  its  sessions  a band  of  women 
knelt  in  constant,  intercessory  prayer. 

The  Foreign  Mission  Mass  Meeting  on  Wednesday  evening, 
attended  by  1,800  people,  the  beautiful  drawing-room  meeting, 
where  more  intimate  presentation  was  possible  than  at  a public 
service;  the  luncheon,  charming  in  setting  and  perfect  in  detail, 
limited  to  1,000  seats,  although  1,131  finally  gained  admittance  by 
the  eloquence  of  their  plea,  while  hundreds  were  turned  away  ; the 
meeting  for  graduate  nurses,  held  in  one  of  the  stateliest  homes  in 
the  city,  when  all  of  the  hospitals  sent  their  entire  force,  except  the 
most  necessary  corps;  the  complimentary  dinner  given  by  the 
Women’s  Medical  Association  to  Dr.  Mary  Noble,  where  they 
heard  her  story  with  deep  interest,  and  afterward  attended  the 
evening  session  in  a group  ; the  pretty  loyalty  of  the  Wellesley 
Club,  who  also  came  in  a body  armed  with  a sheaf  of  roses  for 
Wellesley’s  “dear  Helen  Barrett  Montgomery”;  the  Denomina- 
tional Rallies,  with  an  attendance  of  nearly  one  thousand,  where 
$19,000  was  pledged, — all  of  these  were  salient  features  in  a 
meeting  which  press  and  people  united  in  calling  one  of  the  most 
deeply  impressive  ever  held  in  Denver. 

The  cosmopolitan  character  of  Colorado’s  celebration  is  shown 
by  the  report  of  the  Registration  Committee.  Fifteen  states  were 
represented,  while  delegates  came  from  20  towns  in  Colorado; 
one  city  of  10,000,  30  miles  distant,  sending  100  delegates,  and 
another,  75  miles  away,  sending  36. 

The  committee  has  issued  6,000  copies  of  the  Policy  adopted 
at  the  Workers’  Conference  and  10,000  of  the  Call  to  Prayer,  cast  in 
permanent  form  to  cover  the  needs  in  interdenominational  work. 
The  Post  Jubilee  Message,  which  has  been  freely  circulated  among 
the  missionary  societies  of  all  denominations,  calls  for  a definite, 
intelligent,  effective  campaign. 


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®l )t  ©malja  Jubilee 

The  report  of  the  Omaha  Jubilee  has  not  reached  us,  hut  we 
have  had  a brief  account  of  a strong  united  committee  and  enthu- 
siastic meetings.  A Woman’s  Federation  for  missionary  work  is 
one  result,  and  a chain  of  smaller  Jubilees  is  planned  to  cover  the 
state  of  Nebraska. 

The  Chairman,  Mrs.  George  Tilden,  writes  of  the  great  value 
of  the  Jubilee  in  Omaha,  and  says,  “We  have  organized  a Woman’s 
Missionary  Federation  as  a result  of  our  Jubilee  in  Omaha,  and 
shall  hold  meetings  throughout  the  state.” 


®tje  Lincoln  Jubilee 

Des  Moines  was  scheduled  for  a Jubilee  but  found  itself  un- 
equal to  the  task  owing  to  other  important  meetings  preceding  the 
Jubilee  dates.  Three  days  before,  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  hearing  that 
the  Jubilee  party  might  have  a day  or  two  to  spare,  telegraphed  on 
to  Denver,  secured  their  consent,  made  plans  with  utmost  rapidity, 
and  held  one  of  the  very  best  Jubilees  in  the  whole  circuit,  includ- 
ing a great  mass  meeting  of  students.  Nowhere  was  there  more 
intense  interest  or  more  appreciative  audiences.  We  have  had 
no  report  from  Lincoln  but  feel  this  word  is  due  them. 


UansaS  dtp  Jubilee 

[A  high  tide  was  reached  in  Kansas  City,  due  to  the  spirit  of  prayer 
that  pervaded  all  the  preparations.] 

Unavoidable  delays  shortened  the  time  for  definite  prepara- 
tion for  the  Kansas  City  Jubilee  to  less  than  three  weeks,  but  God 
had  prepared  hundreds  of  willing  hearts  and  minds  throughout 
Greater  Kansas  City,  and  when  the  chairman  called  for  a commit- 
tee in  every  church,  composed  of  ten  women,  with  the  pastor’s 
wife  and  president  of  the  Missionary  Society  as  chairmen,  the 
most  capable,  influential  women  of  the  city  responded,  pledged 
themselves  to  serve  on  any  committee,  work  for  the  denomina- 
tional rallies,  and  make  clear  in  the  local  church  and  community 
the  object  and  great  importance  of  the  Jubilee.  Thus  more  than 


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one  thousand  women  were  set  to  work  simultaneously,  each  feeling 
responsible  for  some  definite  part  of  the  preparation.  There  was 
no  assessment  made  on  churches  for  Jubilee  expense.  All  offer- 
ings and  pledges  solicited  were  reported  in  the  denominational 
rallies  for  the  cause  of  missions.  Dr.  Vinton’s  interesting  lecture, 
given  four  days  before  the  convention,  stimulated  general  interest, 
and  the  proceeds,  with  offerings  from  the  evening  Jubilee  meet- 
ings, more  than  paid  all  expenses.  Eleven  denominations,  with 
various  kindred  organizations,  worked  in  close  unity.  Circles  in 
every  church  made  definite  intercession  for  the  preparations  and 
for  the  outpouring  of  the  Holy  Spirit.  At  the  opening  service 
fifteen  hundred  women — a great  company  of  eager,  expectant 
hearts — gathered  to  honor  their  King  and  welcome  his  gifted 
messengers. 

Three  large  mass  meetings  were  held  ; at  each  two  to  three 
thousand  were  present.  A luncheon  was  served  to  fifteen  hun- 
dred, with  many  turned  away.  There  were  three  large  drawing- 
room conferences.  One  at  the  General  Hospital,  for  hospital 
superintendents  and  graduate  nurses,  was  conducted  by  Dr.  Mary 
Noble  of  India;  and  two,  where  Helen  Barrett  Montgomery  was 
guest  of  honor  and  speaker,  were  attended  by  large  numbers  of 
well-known  society  and  club  women.  Nine  denominational 
rallies  were  held.  Each  had  stirring  addresses  from  Board  sec- 
retaries and  missionaries,  and  made  splendid  offerings.  The 
total  amount  of  Jubilee  gifts  was  $50,967. 

The  closing  meeting  was  one  of  great  power.  Three  thousand 
in  attendance  and  hundreds  turned  away.  Several  hundred  young 
women  marched  under  denominational  banners,  with  a procession 
of  costumed  women,  who  made  effective  pleas  for  each  nation  ; 
forty-seven  student  volunteers  told  in  brief  sentences  why  they 
give  their  lives  to  missions. 

Aftermath. — The  enthusiasm  did  not  pass  away  with  the  Ju- 
bilee. A Sunday  afternoon  meeting  was  afterward  held,  where  the 
business  of  all  committees  was  cleared  up,  and  the  amount  in  the 
treasurer’s  hands  was  appropriated  to  the  expenses  of  a repre- 
sentative to  the  New  York  meeting.  Interdenominational  Study 
Classes,  with  eighty  members,  entered  into  enthusiastic  study  for 
ten  weeks.  Post  Jubilee  rallies  are  being  planned  for  fifteen 
Missouri  cities  west  of  the  Mississippi.  Truly,  here,  the  end  of 
the  Conference  has  been  the  beginning  of  the  campaign. 


®fje  is>t.  U.ouiS  Jubilee 

From  the  very  inception  of  the  plan  for  our  Golden  Jubilee, 
the  finest  Christian  womanhood  of  our  city  was  enlisted,  and  all 
our  preparation  was  a labor  of  love. 

Our  program  for  the  two  days  consisted  of  addresses,  given 
in  the  auditorium  of  the  Third  Baptist  Church,  and  in  a drawing- 
room, by  the  Jubilee  party.  Large  audiences  heard  their  powerful 
messages  with  eager  expectancy  of  blessing.  Luncheon  was  served 
for  one  thousand  enthusiastic  women,  who  listened  with  delighted 
interest  to  the  brief  but  most  inspiring  after-dinner  missionary 
talks  of  Jubilee  speakers.  Pledges  for  the  Jubilee  offering 
amounted  to  $20,000. 

Among  the  many  later  blessed  results  of  our  Jubilee  is  the 
contribution  by  the  M.  E.  Church,  South,  of  $50,000,  for  the  ex- 
tension of  their  missionary  enterprise. 

Also,  our  Jubilee  made  possible  a three-weeks’  normal 
mission  study  course  under  Mr.  B.  C.  Millikin  of  New  York. 
About  thirty  classes,  with  Mr.  Millikin’s  pupils  for  teachers,  are 
now  in  progress  in  our  city. 


fEljc  jUiltoaufcee  Jubilee 

The  Jubilee  was  the  best  thing  that  has  ever  come  to  the 
women  of  Milwaukee.  Our  churches  were  crowded  at  all  sessions 
— wonderful  interest  taken.  Sisterhood  not  only  of  the  city,  but 
of  the  world  felt  the  effect,  very  noticeable  in  the  interdenomina- 
tional Day  of  Prayer  meeting  held  February  23d.  The  meeting 
was  held  in  an  Episcopal  church,  and  all  met  together  for  the  first 
time. 

Many  men  and  women  received  their  first  interest  in  foreign 
missions  at  our  Jubilee  meetings.  We  have  reason  to  believe  this 
interest  will  be  permanent.  Dr.  Vinton’s  lecture  did  much  toward 
winning  the  interest  of  the  men.  Nine  hundred  sat  down  to 
luncheon  and  many  were  turned  away  for  lack  of  room.  There 
were  about  sixty  churches  that  were  touched  in  preparing  for  the 
meetings.  There  were  one  hundred  and  twenty-six  women  on  the 
various  committees,  and  a committee  in  each  church  which  made 
one  hundred  and  eighty  more  ; in  all  over  three  hundred  women. 


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There  was  less  than  $2,500  pledged  at  the  denominational 
rallies,  but  that  sum  has  grown  to  over  $6,000,  and  before  we  are 
through  with  the  meetings  in  the  state  we  hope  it  will  be  largely 
increased. 

As  to  the  plans  for  following  up  the  work.  A Standing  In- 
terdenominational Committee  has  been  appointed.  This  commit- 
tee is  ready  to  take  up  any  work  that  would  naturally  come  under 
the  supervision  ot  such  a committee. 

We  plan  to  have  the  program  carried  out  in  each  town  as 
suggested  in  the  General  Bulletin,  issued  by  the  Central  Committee 
on  United  Study  ot  Missions. 


®ije  Chicago  futrilee 

The  meetings  of  the  Chicago  Jubilee  began  with  Mr.  Vinton’s 
lecture,  “Western  Women  in  Eastern  Lands,”  given  Wednesday 
afternoon  in  Orchestra  Hall.  Young  women  in  Oriental  costume 
acted  as  ushers,  and  sold  literature  in  the  toyer  and  aisles.  The 
house,  holding  over  two  thousand,  was  well  filled,  and  enough 
money  was  realized  to  pay  all  the  expenses  of  the  Chicago  Jubilee, 
and  leave  a large  sum  for  the  Western  Extension  Committee. 
In  the  audience  were  very  many  to  whom  the  story  of  Women’s 
Work  in  Foreign  Missions  wras  quite  unknown. 

Wednesday  evening  Jubilee  speakers  and  missionaries  spoke 
in  prayer  meetings  in  different  parts  of  the  city,  neighboring 
churches  uniting  for  the  purpose. 

Thursday  morning  were  held  three  parlor  conferences  in  the 
three  great  sections  of  the  city.  To  these  were  invited  many 
women  to  whom  the  great  needs  and  opportunities  of  the  Orient, 
and  the  noble  work  of  Christian  women  in  the  Homeland,  were 
alike  new.  The  interest  roused  by  these  meetings  was  great. 

The  luncheon  on  Thursday  was  served  to  over  one  thousand 
women  in  the  banquet  hall  of  the  Auditorium  Hotel.  The  num- 
ber was  limited  only  by  the  capacity  of  the  hall.  This  was  fol- 
lowed by  the  denominational  rallies  held  in  a group  of  churches 
centering  about  Moody  Institute.  A supper  was  served  by 
Moody  Church  for  those  who  wished  to  remain  over  for  the 
evening  grand  rally,  also  held  in  Moody  Church.  The  church 
was  filled,  and  the  spiritual  power  of  the  meeting  was  great.  The 
gifts  announced  amounted  to  $35,000. 


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Statement  of  the  Extension  Committee 
The  Western  Extension  Committee  in  Chicago  has  issued 
the  following  announcement  which  indicates  the  hold  the  Jubilee 
has  taken  in  the  West  and  the  fine  management  of  the  Committee. 

O 


“ The  newest  movement  in  the  church  is  the  Woman’s  Na- 
tional Foreign  Missionary  Jubilee,  which  has  been  sweeping  across 
the  continent  from  the  Pacific  toward  the  Atlantic. 

These  meetings  have  registered  a growth  in  unity  of  feeling, 
unity  of  purpose  and  unity  of  effort  that  we  well  know  is  only  a 
prophecy  of  larger  mutual  helpfulness  to  follow.  So  great,  indeed, 
has  been  the  awakening,  so  startlingly  evident  and  unmistakable 
has  been  God’s  voice,  that  all  of  the  Women’s  Foreign  Missionary 
Boards  have  united  in  a campaign  to  cover  the  whole  country  by 
holding  twenty  or  more  Jubilee  meetings  in  each  state.  The 
purpose  is  threefold  : — 

1.  To  crystallize  the  interest  alreadv  awakened  into  some 
definite  form  of  service,  and  to  give  every  woman  an  opportunity 
to  become  a real,  vital  factor  in  giving  the  glad  Gospel  of  the  Son 
of  God  to  the  non-Christian  world. 

2.  To  make  this  new  vision  a lasting  stimulus  to  a deeper 
spiritual  life,  a call  to  more  fervent  prayer,  an  incentive  to  more 
intelligent  study  of  the  fields  abroad  and  the  problems  at  home. 

3.  To  honor  the  Lord  with  a Jubilee  offering  of  one  million 
dollars.” 


)t  jffltnneapolis  Jubilee 

Our  Jubilee  Meeting  was  a success,  and  its  influence  is  still 
being  felt.  The  meetings  were  held  on  Fridav  and  Saturday. 
The  attendance  was  all  that  could  be  desired  on  those  days,  but  the 
meeting  Saturday  evening  was  not  so  well  attended,  for  several 
reasons  which  we  could  not  foresee  and  prevent. 

We  are  planning  extension  work  in  the  shape  of  Missionary 
Institutes  of  two  days’  duration,  to  be  held  as  a part  of  our 
summer  school  work  in  twenty  or  thirty  of  our  cities  and  towns, — 
not  for  this  year  only,  but  are  trying  to  so  plan  that  they  shall 
be  a permanent  thing. 

We  learn  that  as  a result  of  the  Jubilee  in  one  church  twenty 
circles  were  formed  to  study  Western  Women  in  Eastern  Lands. 

An  enthusiastic  meeting  was  also  held  in  St.  Paul. 


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fElje  inbtanapolts  Jubilee 

No  report  from  the  Indianapolis  Committee  has  come  to  us, 
but  so  well  known  is  the  history  of  this  most  famous  Jubilee  of 
the  Western  circuit  that  we  can  tell  it  without  notes.  A great 
committee  of  400,  emphasizing  from  first  to  last  the  power  of 
prayer ; a wave  of  enthusiastic  effort  sweeping  over  the  state  ; a 
splendid  group  of  leaders,  women  who  were  statesmen  and  scorned 
to  plan  little  things.  Here  the  luncheon  was  for  1,500.  Here 
was  a great  processional  of  young  women,  and  here,  too,  was  the 
greatest  missionary  offering — $8 1 ,000.  Since  then  J ubilee  messages 
have  been  flying  over  the  country  from  the  Christian  Woman’s 
Board  of  Missions,  which  has  its  headquarters  in  Indianapolis,  and 
a chain  of  Jubilees  stretches  over  the  country,  while  pledges  and 
offerings  continue  to  pour  in,  nowhere  has  there  been  better 
planning  or  better  deserved  results.  Indianapolis  has  inspired  us 
all. 


®f jc  Cincinnati  Jubilee 

Two  meetings  of  the  small  Executive  Body,  and  eight  of  all 
the  officers  and  committees,  were  held  in  the  period  of  time  from 
September  13,  1910  until  the  17th  and  1 8 th  of  November,  1910, 
the  days  of  the  Jubilee.  Prayerfully  and  earnestly  the  work  was 
planned. 

Phe  mass  meetings,  tour  in  number,  held  in  the  Ninth  Street 
Baptist  Church,  filled  the  church  almost  to  overflowing,  indicating 
an  attendance  of  1,500  at  each  of  these  meetings. 

The  splendidly  attended  Young  Woman’s  Rally  in  Trinity 
M.  E.  Church  just  before  the  closing  mass  meeting,  was  a re- 
markably fine  feature  of  the  Jubilee. 

At  the  luncheon,  served  at  the  Grand  Hotel,  1,520  women 
were  seated  at  the  beautifully  decorated  tables.  T his  luncheon 
financed  the  Jubilee,  25  per  cent  of  the  $1  charged  for  tickets 
being  considered  a registration  fee. 

Drawing-room  meetings  were  held  in  several  homes. 

A total  of  $56,000  was  reported  pledged  as  a result  of  the 
denominational  rallies. 

Resulting  from  the  harmonious  and  helpful  association  in  the 
Jubilee  work,  a permanent  interdenominational  organization  has 
been  formed,  bearing  the  name  “ The  Woman’s  Foreign  Mission- 
ary Union  of  Cincinnati.”  The  initial  meeting  was  held  Feb- 


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ruary  28th,  with  every  indication  that  it  was  destined  for  a healthy 
and  useful  career. 

Sub-Jubilees,  to  be  held  in  the  southern  half  of  the  state  of 
Ohio,  have  also  become  a part  of  the  work  of  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  Jubilee. 


fEfje  Detroit  Sfufatlee 

Eight  business  meetings  of  Central  Committee  were  held  pre- 
liminary to  the  Jubilee  Meeting;  and  one  special  meeting  for 
prayer  for  the  truest  success  of  the  meetings.  This  last  was  held 
in  the  Auditorium  of  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.,  and  had  a large  attendance. 

The  general  plan  suggested  by  Western  Executive  Com- 
mittee was  carried  out  as  far  as  possible. 

Eleadquarters  were  established  at  Y.  W.  C.  A.  building. 
Stationery  (with  letter  head  and  envelopes  with  corner  printing) 
was  issued.  One  hundred  and  fifty-five  letters  were  sent  to  city 
pastors  asking  for  co-operation  and  special  sermon. 

The  following  printed  matter  was  issued  and  distributed  : — 

Two  hundred  posters,  2,000  local  circulars,  15,000  dodgers, 
8,000  programs,  1,500  souvenir  menus  and  programs,  1,500  hymn 
sheets,  1,500  copies  of  Mrs.  Elouser’s  Jubilee  hymn,  2,500  lunch 
tickets,  500  registration  cards,  500  pledge  cards,  7 signs  for 
denominational  rallies. 

Press  notices  appeared  in  five  Detroit  dailies  and  81  state 
papers,  with  cuts  of  speakers.  The  general  chairman  presented 
the  subject  of  Jubilee  before  the  Pastors’  Union. 

Churches  of  all  denominations  contributed  toward  expenses 
of  Jubilee.  The  sale  of  literature  at  Detroit  was  said  to  be  one 
of  the  largest  of  the  Western  meetings. 

Luncheon  was  attended  by  over  twelve  hundred  women. 
The  souvenir  menu  program  contained  a beautiful  half-tone 
picture  of  Mrs.  Doremos. 

On  Sunday,  November  20th,  seventeen  pulpits  of  churches 
of  different  denominations  were  occupied  by  missionaries  and 
Board  members. 

At  the  mass  meeting,  November  21st,  reports  from  different 
denominations  showed  that  $13,000  (thirteen  thousand)  had  been 
pledged  for  the  Jubilee  fund. 


A beautiful  spirit  of  unity  and  fellowship  characterized  all 
the  meetings.  All  were  “ Workers  together  with  Him.”  As  a 
result  of  this  spirit,  the  meetings  were  a real  blessing  to  our  city, 
and  remain  not  only  a pleasant  memory  but  as  an  abiding  influence 
in  our  lives. 

At  the  present  time  we  are  sending  out  printed  matter  and 
personal  letters  to  all  the  large  towns  of  Michigan,  asking  that 
meetings  be  arranged  for.  They  have  already  been  held  in 
Saginaw  and  Lansing.  Ypsilanti  will  have  one  on  March  9th. 
The  General  Chairman  and  Secretary  of  Central  Committee  of 
Detroit  will  attend  and  help. 


je  Clebelanb  Jubilee 

[After  a pause  from  November  21st  to  January  221I,  the  Jubilee  party 
started  out  again,  holding  its  first  meeting  in  Cleveland,  Ohio.  It  had  been 
impossible  to  include  Cleveland  in  the  Western  circuit,  but  it  would  not 
he  denied,  and  gave  a splendid  start  to  the  second  series.] 

Cleveland,  the  chief  city  of  Ohio  and  the  heart  of  the  Western 
Reserve,  opened  its  gates  to  a splendid  Foreign  Mission  Jubilee 
celebration,  January  the  22d,  23d  and  24th,  1911. 

It  is  estimated  at  its  several  sessions,  that  10,000  to  12,000 
persons  engaged  in  some  part  of  the  exercises. 

The  program  comprehended  morning  devotional  hours,  after- 
noon conferences,  drawing-room  convocations,  denominational 
rallies  and  general  mass  meetings,  which  taxed  the  various  audi- 
toriums to  the  uttermost. 

Seventy-eight  towns  of  Northern  Ohio  were  represented,  as 
registration  testifies. 

Several  hostesses  issued  cards  for  drawing-rooms. 

Over  two  thousand  were  present  at  the  luncheon,  served 
at  one  time  in  one  auditorium  only. 

The  entire  celebration  was  characterized  bv  a certain  simplicity 
of  arrangement,  which  maintained  throughout  the  continuity  of 
thought  and  purpose  which  the  compelling  interest  of  the  occasion 
demanded. 

The  Christian  women  of  the  community  sought  no  other  object 
than  to  declare  their  obligation  to  help  all  peoples,  regardless  of 
race,  language  or  color. 

The  Jubilee  fund  is  approximately  $50,000,  and  growing 
lustily. 


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The  Cleveland  Committee  resolved  itself  into  a Jubilee  Exten- 
sion Committee,  and  is  now  arranging  sub-celebrations  in  as  many 
towns  as  it  can  find  open  doors  or  doors  to  open. 

Ten  such  meetings  are  under  way,  with  the  work  but  fairly 
started. 


®fje  Houisbillc  Jubilee 

The  first  intimation  of  the  Jubilee,  like  a first  bird  note  her- 
alding the  dawn;  fell  upon  senses  dulled  by  slumber.  “Who  can 
lead  us?”  cried  the  many  faint-hearted.  From  far  Boston  came  the 
answer  when  Mrs.  Henry  W.  Peabody,  the  intrepid,  consecrated 
woman,  whose  heart  and  brain  gave  birth  to  this  greatest  of  woman’s 
movements,  secured  Mrs.  J.  B.  Marvin  as  leader  for  our  first 
Southern  city  on  the  Jubilee  circuit.  Insistent,  clear,  thrilling  notes 
then  followed  that  first  call,  and  our  ears  were  quickened,  our  dull 
eyes  opened,  we  bestirred  ourselves,  we  made  ready  for  the  dawning 
of  a glorious  day. 

A strong  organization  representing  six  denominations  was 
formed  in  the  parlors  of  our  chairman,  and  from  October  to  the  last 
of  January  we  met  there  each  week  to  pray,  to  plan,  to  guide  the 
great  undertaking.  These  women,  with  sub-chairmen  and  an  in- 
creasing number  of  faithful  women  in  all  the  churches,  laid  aside  as 
far  as  possible  for  the  time  other  duties,  other  pleasures,  and  made 
the  preparation  for  the  Jubilee  their  avocation. 

Prayer  meetings  were  held  by  the  different  denominations,  then 
joining  forces,  all  denominations  met  in  great  inspiring  rallies,  which 
waxed  greater  week  by  week  in  spiritual  power  and  enthusiasm. 

With  the  dawning  of  January  26th  the  heralds  ot  the  day 
sounded  glad,  buoyant  notes,  for  all  was  in  readiness.  At  the  hour 
for  the  drawing-room  meetings,  with  which  we  opened,  representa- 
tive women  of  the  city  were  seen  hurrying  to  and  fro  about  the 
King’s  business.  The  afternoon  with  its  first  general  meeting 
found  audiences  packed  to  the  doors.  The  evening  sessions  were 
a repetition  of  the  afternoon  and  hundreds  were  turned  away  to 
crowd  an  over-flow  service.  The  denominational  rallies  of  next 
day  met  staunch  support,  each  from  its  own  constituency,  in  spite 
of  dismal  rain,  and  then  the  luncheon  at  12  o’clock  brought  eager, 
hurrying  women  from  every  part  of  the  city  and  from  the  state. 
Tickets  were  in  demand  everywhere,  and  twice  the  number  issued 
could  have  been  sold,  while  the  beautiful,  new  De  Molay  Hall,  with 


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its  spacious  auditorium,  was  crowded  with  leading  women  of  the  city. 
For  hours  they  sat  when  the  feast  of  viands  was  ended,  and  listened 
while  workers  from  the  foreign  field  and  burden  bearers  at  home 
told  of  the  work  and  the  needs.  Then  came  the  final  meeting,  and 
a chorus  of  hundreds  of  young  women,  led  by  students  of  a woman’s 
missionary  training  school,  marched  down  the  aisle  of  the  audi- 
torium singing,  “ Jerusalem  the  Golden.”  So  great  was  the  crowd 
that  even  after  the  overflow  meeting  had  taken  hundreds  from  the 
main  audience  room,  the  aisles  had  to  be  cleared  for  safety  before 
the  meeting  could  begin. 

The  inspiration,  the  spiritual  power  that  was  generated  in  this 
city  and  state,  cannot  be  measured  except  in  eternity.  It  was  a 
Pentecost,  d owns,  villages  and  rural  communities  of  our  own  and 
other  states  caught  the  echoes,  and  many  have  been  stirred  to  do 
more  for  the  lost  world  which  needs  the  Christ. 

The  great  Jubilee  tide  which  swept  in  from  the  Pacific  Coast 
thus  enriched  us  a thousand-fold  ere  it  passed  on  to  break  in  full 
splendor  upon  rhe  Atlantic  shore,  and  to  the  echoing  angel  chorus 
of  “ Glory  to  God  in  the  highest,”  we  send  our  glad,  responsive, 
“ Amen  and  Amen  ! ” 


Hje  idasfUuUc  Jubilee 

The  Nashville  meeting  of  the  Woman’s  National  Foreign 
Missionary  Jubilee,  which  took  place  January  30— 31,  was  the 
greatest  women’s  meeting  ever  held  in  this  section  of  our  country. 
We  planned  for  large  things,  knowing  that  it  was  in  celebration  of 
a world  movement,  the  missionary  cause,  and  the  part  women 
have  had  in  the  uplifting  of  womanhood,  and  the  wholesome  and 
protecting  care  and  training  of  children  in  non-Christian  lands. 
Therefore,  the  largest  auditorium  with  a seating  capacity  of  five 
thousand  was  rented  for  our  mass  meeting  and  for  the  Vinton 
stereopticon  lecture,  illustrative  of  Mrs.  Montgomery’s  book, 
Western  Women  in  Eastern  Lands.  On  both  nights  the  attendance 
was  between  four  and  five  thousand.  At  our  luncheon,  held  in 
the  largest  hotel,  were  seated  seven  hundred,  and  had  space  al- 
lowed, seven  hundred  more  tickets  could  have  been  sold.  There 
were  between  twelve  and  thirteen  hundred  women  at  the  Conference 
of  Workers,  held  in  McKendree  Methodist  Church. 

At  the  luncheon,  Conference  of  Workers’  mass  meeting  and 
parlor  conferences,  stirring  addresses  were  made  which  so  aroused 


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the  enthusiasm  of  the  women  present  that  when  the  denomina- 
tional rallies  were  held  the  sum  total  of  thank-offerings  amounted 
to  $ 12,200 . 

Special  mention  must  be  made  of  the  interdenominational 
rally  that  had  been  planned  for  the  colored  women  of  our  city, 
held  in  one  of  their  own  churches.  The  church  was  well  filled  by 
the  women  of  that  race,  who  were  addressed  by  our  visiting 
speakers,  and  who  were  much  impressed  by  the  accounts  given  of 
the  pitiable  condition  of  the  women  in  the  foreign  mission  fields. 

As  a result  of  the  Nashville  Jubilee,  the  enthusiasm  for  and 
interest  in  missions  have  spread  to  all  the  near-by  towns  of  the 
state,  the  chairman  and  vice  chairman  having  been  invited  to 
attend  these  smaller  Jubilee  meetings.  Many  mission  study 
classes  have  been  organized,  and  it  has  been  decided  bv  the  Ex- 
ecutive Committee  to  take  the  $100  left  over  in  our  treasury  and 
make  it  the  nucleus  of  a fund  for  the  purchase  of  missionary  books 
to  be  placed  in  our  Carnegie  Circulating  Library  for  use  by  the 
women  of  all  the  churches. 


U Cfjc  ^asljington  Jubilee 

Early  in  November,  1910,  Mrs.  Wallace  Radcliffe,  wife  of 
the  pastor  of  the  New  York  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church,  received 
a letter  from  Mrs.  Peabody,  asking  her  to  call  together  representa- 
tive women  from  the  various  evangelical  churches  of  the  city,  and  to 
extend  to  them  the  invitation  of  the  Central  Committee  on  United 
Study  to  hold  a celebration  of  the  Woman’s  National  Foreign 
Missionary  Jubilee  in  Washington  on  February  1 and  3,  1911. 
With  the  willingness  which  characterizes  Mrs.  Radcliffe  in  every 
Christly  endeavor,  she  called  together  a large  number  of  mission- 
interested  women,  and  laid  before  them  the  invitation.  It  was 
accepted  unanimously,  and  Mrs.  Radcliffe  was  made  chairman  of 
the  committee  of  one  hundred  in  charge. 

Headquarters  for  the  committee,  with  a secretary  in  constant 
attendance,  and  where  committee  meetings  were  almost  continuous, 
was  opened  from  January  4th,  at  the  First  Congregational  Church. 
The  coming  of  the  Jubilee  was  heralded  far  and  wide:  at  clubs, 
receptions,  teas,  as  well  as  at  missionary  societies  and  from  church 
pulpits.  During  December  and  January  the  untiring  Chairman 
General,  as  well  as  others  of  the  Executive,  was  in  constant 
demand  to  speak  of  the  Jubilee  at  public  meetings.  In  short,  no 


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stone  was  left  unturned  to  interest  all  classes  in  the  coming  event. 
With  wise  forethought  the  chairmen  placed  as  many  women  ac- 
tively at  work  on  the  committees  as  possible.  Through  denom- 
inational chairmen  and  sub-church  chairmen,  with  innumerable 
sub-committees,  the  Publicity  Committee  had  more  than  a thousand 
women  putting  its  committee  motto,  £<  Go  Tell,”  into  execution; 
and  in  order  to  secure  intelligent  newspaper  reports,  a luncheon 
was  given  to  reporters  from  all  of  the  city  dailies,  when  the  plans 
and  objects  of  the  Jubilee  were  explained.  The  Chairman  of 
Places  of  Meeting  secured  the  home  of  Mrs.  John  Hay  for  one 
of  the  drawing-room  meetings  and  the  parlors  of  the  Congressional 
Club  for  the  other.  Mrs.  John  R.  McLean  tendered  her  palatial 
home  for  an  afternoon  reception  to  Mrs.  Peabody  and  Mrs. 
Montgomery,  where,  as  at  the  drawing-room  meetings,  both  the 
honored  guests  and  Dr.  Noble  spoke  with  marked  effect  before 
large  audiences  of  distinguished  and  wealthy  women.  A beau- 
tifully appointed  luncheon  of  eight  hundred  covers,  in  the  ball- 
room of  the  New  Willard,  was  another  attractive  feature. 

On  Thursday  afternoon  President  and  Mrs.  Taft  gave  an  in- 
formal reception  at  the  White  House  to  the  guests  and  the  Jubilee 
Committee,  at  which  a leather-bound  copy  of  Western  Women  in 
Eastern  Lands , autographed  by  Mrs.  Montgomery,  was  presented 
to  Mrs.  Taft.  That  same  afternoon  a Students’  Meeting  was 
held  in  the  splendid  new  Masonic  Hall  with  fifteen  hundred  girl 
students  there,  largely  from  the  fashionable  boarding  schools  of 
the  Capital.  At  the  same  hour  the  auditorium  of  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church,  seating  the  same  number,  was  filled  to  over- 
flowing with  a Workers’  Conference,  and  an  hour  or  two  later  the 
same  room  was  crowded  to  its  utmost  with  a meeting  for  Busy 
Women, — those  who  were  employed  during  the  day.  That  even- 
ing an  immense  mass  meeting  for  colored  women,  with  fully  two 
thousand  in  attendance,  was  held  at  the  Metropolitan  A.  M.  E. 
Church.  A young  colored  woman,  Miss  Nannie  Burroughs,  pre- 
sided admirably.  At  the  regular  church  prayer  meetings  of  the  city 
that  evening,  missions  were  under  discussion,  and  many  of  the  visit- 
ing speakers  were  heard.  On  Friday  Mrs.  Charles  W.  Richardson 
threw  open  her  Connecticut  Avenue  home  for  the  Nurses’  Meet- 
ing, following  it  with  a social  hour  for  the  three  hundred  attend- 
ants. At  four  o’clock  that  afternoon  nearly  two  thousand  boys 
and  girls  under  fourteen  years  gathered  at  the  New  York  Avenue 
Church  for  the  Children’s  Story  Hour.  The  closing  service  Fri- 
day evening,  at  the  Continental  Hall  of  the  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution,  was  packed  to  its  utmost. 


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The  results?  Who  can  foretell  them  ? The  denominational 
rallies  Friday  morning,  as  splendidly  enthusiastic  as  any  meetings 
of  the  Jubilee,  brought  in  over  seventeen  thousand  dollars  for  the 
Jubilee  fund,  an  amount  which  has  since  been  increased  to  over 
twenty  thousand.  But  money  cannot  estimate  results!  Women’s 
prayer  meetings  were  held  in  many  parts  of  the  city  for  weeks 
before  the  Jubilee  occurred,  and  the  coming  years  must  still  record 
the  answers  to  those  prayers.  The  efficient  Literature  Chairman 
and  her  Committee  had  IV estern  Women  and  Everyland  on  sale  at 
every  meeting,  and  many  copies  of  both  were  sold.  A number  of 
new  study  classes  have  been  organized,  reaching  women  before 
untouched,  and  whose  influence  must  be  far-reaching.  Through 
the  Publicity  Committee  a systematic  membership  campaign  was 
inaugurated  in  the  majority  of  all  mission  societies  ; several  are  re- 
porting doubled  membership,  many  a very  large  increase,  and  to 
all  of  them  the  Jubilee  has  brought  new  life  and  enthusiasm. 
From  this  committee  also  will  come  a souvenir  booklet  of  the  Ju- 
bilee, which  will  include  a story  of  what  the  various  churches  of 
the  district  have  done  in  missions, — to  be  used  as  a motive  for 
greater  service. 

The  wider  acquaintance  the  Jubilee  engendered  brought  a far 
sweeter  Christian  fellowship  among  the  church  women, — one  of 
the  blessed  results  not  to  be  overlooked.  An  interest  has  been 
awakened  in  many  of  the  women  who  were  unaware  of  missions, 
while  to  many  who  were  aware,  there  has  come  a broader,  larger 
view  of  the  Kingdom  of  God  and  the  part  in  it  which  he  has  given 
them  to  fill.  But  best  of  all,  through  the  Jubilee,  a number  of  our 
young  women  have  been  led  to  give  their  lives  for  their  Master’s 
service  wherever  he  may  call. 


Kicfjmont)  Jubilee 

“Cannot  Richmond  come  into  the  line  of  Jubilees  ? ” asked 
Mrs.  Stewart,  a devoted  Presbyterian  worker.  “ Can  you  take  the 
one  date  between  Washington  and  Baltimore?  It  leaves  little 
time  for  preparation  but  you  may  have  it,”  was  the  reply. 
How  they  worked  and  prayed,  and  what  wonderful  results  were 
attained  ! Even  the  Executive  Mansion  was  opened  to  committee 
and  prayer  meetings.  Luncheons  and  drawing-rooms  and  great 
mass  meetings  all  testified  to  rare  leadership  and  intense  interest  on 
the  part  of  the  local  committee. 


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Wt )t  Baltimore  Jubilee 


OUR  GLAD  YEAR 

With  prayer  and  humility  of  spirit,  Baltimore  made  ready  to 
render  back  to  God  in  the  Jubilee  time  the  precious  charge  that 
he  had  so  freely  given  her  for  these  fifty  beautiful  years.  The 
burden  of  responsibility  and  privilege  became  glorified  by  the 
hope  of  being  able  to  bring  to  Him  a gift  of  love,  of  service,  of 
money,  worthy  of  his  acceptance.  Asking  the  Father’s  guidance 
every  step  of  the  way  in  things  great  and  small,  the  practical 
preparations  went  forward. 

Sixteen  denominations  were  enlisted  in  the  active  work,  and 
became  enthusiastic  helpers.  The  “suggested  subjects  for  prayer” 
were  freely  circulated  and  used  by  way  of  preparation.  The 
practical  outline  given  by  the  general  committee  was  so  clear  and 
comprehensive  that  planning  for  the  meetings  was  comparatively 
easy*  A Workers’  Conference,  two  mass  meetings, — one  for  young 
people,  held  in  a large  theatre  with  overflow  meeting  in  a near-by 
church, — luncheon  for  fifteen  hundred  in  one  room,  three  drawing- 
room meetings  designed  to  reach  different  circles, — one  being  for 
young  girls  whose  chief  interest  is  society, — meetings  for  nurses  at 
several  hospitals,  and  fourteen  denominational  conferences,  with 
a fine  exhibit  of  literature,  made  up  a program  rich  in  interest  for 
all  classes  of  women,  interested,  indifferent  or  skeptical.  The 
results  of  these  gatherings  were  beyond  the  expectations  of  the 
sanguine  committees. 

The  practical  results,  as  apparent  at  this  time  are:  hundreds 
of  new  members  enrolled  in  missionary  societies;  widespread  and 
intelligent  interest  in  mission  study,  particularly  our  Western 
Women  in  Eastern  Lands ; a new  realization  of  the  need  and  power 
of  prayer,  with  determination  to  learn  “to  pray  for  the  limitless, 
the  impossible,  the  glorious,”  and  a reported  increase  in  cash  and 
pledges,  to  the  time  of  the  meeting,  of  $37,000.  T his  includes 
$19,000  in  two  legacies  from  two  devoted  friends  of  missions  who 
left  us  just  at  the  Jubilee  time,  and,  being  dead,  yet  spoke  in  our 
midst.  One  of  these  was  to  have  been  Mrs.  Montgomery’s  hostess 
during  herstay  here,  and  was  a beautiful  and  consecrated  missionary 
spirit. 

To  conserve  the  influences  of  the  meeting  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee has  resolved  itself  into  a Continuation  Committee  of  one 
member  from  each  denomination  with  the  same  officers,  whose 
purpose  shall  be  to  meet  at  stated  times  to  confer  upon  problems 


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and  plans  mutually  interesting;  to  endeavor  to  secure  missionary 
candidates  for  their  boards;  to  stimulate  the  study  of  missionary 
literature,  particularly  our  text-book  in  study  classes;  and  to  en- 
courage the  spirit  and  practice  of  prevailing  prayer  for  our  work. 
Young  people’s  rallies  of  various  denominations  have  already  been 
held,  with  gratifying  results  in  interest  and  new  members. 


®j )t  Harrisburg  Jubilee 

On  learning ^that  Harrisburg  could  be  included  in  the  Mis- 
sionary Jubilee  which  was  to  sweep  the  country  from  coast  to  coast, 
we  followed  the  plan  outlined  by  the  Central  Committee  ; formed 
an  Executive  Committee,  representing  all  the  evangelical  denomina- 
tions, then  sub-divided  into  working  committees,  having  fully  three 
hundred  women  on  our  lists. 

A weekly  prayer  service  was  held  for  eight  weeks,  the  interest 
spreading  as  time  passed.  Harrisburg  being  centrally  located, 
many  smaller  towns  were  reached  and  the  women  interested  to  the 
extent  of  coming  here  as  delegates.  About  one  thousand  women 
availed  themselves  of  this  opportunity  and  thus  were  able  to  take 
back  to  their  homes  the  wonderful  things  they  heard.  Circulars 
and  prayer  cards  were  distributed  out  of  town  as  well  as  in  every 
one  of  the  fifty  churches  of  our  city,  heralding  the  glad  news  of 
the  coming  of  Mrs.  Montgomery,  who  was  already  known  and 
loved  here  by  many  who  had  come  under  her  influence  at  North- 
field. 

Interest  was  broadened  by  calling  for  one  thousand  children, 
between  the  ages  of  ten  and  fourteen,  who  were  drilled  to  form  a 
missionary  pageant,  and  filled  one  of  the  churches,  listening  to 
stories  told  by  the  missionaries.  We  cannot  tell  the  depth  of  the 
impression  made  upon  these  children  and  the  results  in  the  future. 

Two  thousand  young  women  attended  a special  service  held 
in  their  behalf,  and  were  thrilled  by  the  stirring  address  of  Mrs. 
Montgomery,  Miss  Hughes,  Dr.  Noble  and  others. 

The  chorus  of  several  hundred  trained  voices  assisted  the 
congregational  singing  at  all  these  gatherings. 

Simultaneous  and  overflow  meetings  were  held  so  as  to 
accommodate  the  crowds  of  women  who  flocked  to  the  Jubilee. 
It  is  estimated  that  ten  thousand  attended  the  meetings,  all  wearing 
blue  and  white  badges  furnished  by  the  Committee. 


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A thousand  women  were  served  with  a buffet  luncheon,  and 
were  addressed  by  the  Jubilee  speakers. 

At  the  denominational  rallies  which  followed  the  luncheon, 
between  $7,000  and  $8,000  was  pledged  as  Harrisburg’s  Jubilee 
offering. 

The  spirit  of  prayer  and  unity  pervaded  the  whole  move- 
ment, and  to  this  spirit  and  the  blessing  of  God,  we  attribute  its 
wonderful  success  here,  which  is  really  only  a beginning  of  greater 
things  to  come. 

An  after  meeting  was  called,  to  which  nearly  four  hundred 
women  responded  ; a permanent  organization  resulted,  called  the 
Woman’s  Union  Missionary  Society  of  Harrisburg.  The  plans 
for  this  include  meetings  to  be  held  five  times  a year  for  prayer 
and  conference,  arranging  for  an  attractive  program  with  good 
speakers  and  music. 


tEfje  ipijtlatielpljta  Jubilee 

[This  restrained  account  by  the  chairman  gives  little  idea  of  the 
immense  work  of  the  Philadelphia  Committee  and  the  wonderful  arrange- 
ment of  its  details.  The  great  audiences  in  the  Academy  of  Design,  the 
fine  officers  presiding  and  the  “team  work”  of  the  committee  were  most 
effective.] 

The  Philadelphia  Jubilee  meetings  opened  with  Mr.  Vinton’s 
lecture  on  February  iitn  and  closed  with  two  great  meetings  on 
the  evening  of  February  14th.  Letters  were  sent  to  1,300  minis- 
ters, asking  them  to  present  the  world’s  needs  at  one  of  their  ser- 
vices on  the  1 2th.  Children’s  story  hour  was  observed  in  several 
Sunday  schools  at  the  close  of  their  regular  services. 

On  the  last  two  days  of  the  Jubilee  34  meetings  were  held, 
with  an  estimated  attendance  of  25,000  women. 

Two  hundred  and  twenty-five  women,  representing  16 
denominations,  made  up  the  committee  on  preparation.  Twelve 
denominational  rallies  were  held  and  about  $35,000  pledged. 

A supper  was  given  to  1,200  young  women,  including  100 
doctors,  with  Dr.  Everett,  Dean  of  the  Philadelphia  Medical 
School,  presiding  ; and  the  message  to  all  was — the  Jubilee  note — 
a call  to  service. 

On  the  closing  day  a luncheon  was  served  to  2,400  women. 

The  Committee  on  Literature  Exhibit  decided  to  sell  nothing 
but  the  study  book  (376  copies  were  disposed  of).  Free  literature 
was  generously  distributed,  and  all  Boards  had  wonderfully  sys- 

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tematic  displays.  A large  church  gymnasium  provided  abundant 
space.  A gentleman  who  was  seen  studying  the  exhibit  closely, 
said  to  the  chairman  that  he  had  attended  many  conferences  where 
missionary  literature  was  a feature  and  this  was  the  most  scientific- 
ally arranged  display  he  had  ever  seen. 

In  the  preparation  for  the  Jubilee,  special  emphasis  was  laid 
on  prayer  and  consecration.  On  New  Year’s  Sunday  60,000 
prayer  cards  were  distributed  in  the  churches.  In  addition  to 
these  the  Publicity  Committee  issued  40,000  circulars  and 
programs. 

A chorus  of  600  women,  composed  of  the  best  teachers  of 
singing  in  the  city,  and  of  volunteers  from  the  leading  choral 
societies,  led  the  singing  at  the  mass  meeting  at  the  Academy  of 
Music. 

Ten  drawing-room  meetings  were  held  with  an  attendance  of 
1,000. 

The  General  Committee  intrusted  to  the  Executive  Commit- 
tee the  problem  of  continuation  work.  This  has  been  started, 
asking  each  Woman’s  Board  represented  in  the  Jubilee  to  appoint 
some  one  person  to  serve  on  a Continuation  Committee. 


e iPittstourg  Jubilee 

[This  brief  account  gives  no  idea  of  this  remarkable  meeting,  which 
marked  the  highest  tide  in  attendance  and  offerings. 

The  Golden  Jubilee  of  Women’s  Foreign  Missionary  Societies 
marked  an  important  era  in  the  historv  of  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  when  on 
February  16,  17,  1911,  over  twenty-six  thousand  persons  attended 
the  meetings  held  in  the  First  United  Presbyterian  and  Presbyterian 
Churches,  Carnegie  Music  and  Soldiers’  Memorial  Halls.  The 
membership  of  the  committees  in  charge,  numbering  304,  represented 
1 5 denominations.  Thewatchword — “Go  Tell,”  Matthew  xxviii.  10 
— was  carried  out  from  the  very  genesis  of  the  movement.  The  large 
number  of  preparatory  rallies, — denominational  and  interdenomina- 
tional,— the  thousands  of  circular  letters  and  pledge  cards  sent  out 
by  missionary  societies,  together  with  the  225,000  praver  cards, 
seals,  letters,  information  bulletins,  posters,  placards,  dodgers, 
pageant  folders,  and  10,000  twentv-four-paged  souvenir  programs 
distributed  by  the  Publicity  Committee,  brought  every  congrega- 
tion, every  woman’s  club,  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.,  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  the 


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doctors,  nurses,  teachers  and  kindergarten  associations  and  schools 
into  touch  with  foreign  missions. 

The  illustrated  lecture  on  Western  Women  in  Eastern  Lands, 
February  ioth,  by  Rev.  S.  R.  Vinton,  proved  a fitting  prologue  to 
the  Pittsburg  Jubilee. 

The  attendance  figures  will  give  some  idea  of  the  wonderful 
interest  manifested  in  the  two  days’  meetings : praise  and  prayer 
services  2,500,  luncheons  4,700,  drawing-room  conferences  250, 
young  women’s,  doctors’  and  nurses’  rallies  1 ,500,  open  forum  1 ,500, 
denominational  rallies  7,000,  noon  meetings  at  factories  250,  mass 
meeting  1,900,  overflow  meetings  1 ,200,  pageant  exhibit  in  two 
halls  6,000,  with  thousands  turned  away.  Eight  heathen  countries 
were  represented  by  25  missionaries,  chorus  choir  250,  blind  choir 
50,  other  musicians  50,  taking  part  in  the  pageant  300. 

Through  the  Missionary  Jubilee,  God  has  opened  to  Chris- 
tian women  new  opportunities  for  service,  which  bring  with  them 
new  responsibilities.  He  has  put  a new  song  upon  our  lips,  and  a 
new  joy  in  our  hearts.  He  has  given  us  a new  vision  of  church 
unity,  and  a new  purpose  to  study  more  intelligently,  to  pray 
more  fervently,  to  serve  more  faithfully  and  to  give  more  liberally, 
in  order  to  hasten  the  time  when  every  tongue — whatever  language 
it  may  speak — shall  confess  Christ  to  be  the  King  of  kings  and  the 
Lord  of  lords. 

[The  gifts  and  pledges  of  the  Pittsburg  Jubilee  have  reached  $94,000, 
which  the  Committee  believes  will  reach  $100,000  before  March  30th.  Of 
this,  one  of  the  smaller  denominations  gave  $45,000.] 


^Buffalo  JTutiilce 

The  active  work  of  planning  for  the  Jubilee  was  begun  im- 
mediately after  January  1st,  and  carried  on  unceasingly  until  the 
dates  of  meeting,  February  23d  and  24th.  Every  effort  was  made 
to  inform  the  women  of  Buffalo  and  Western  New  York  of  the 
object  and  scope  of  the  Jubilee  and  to  arouse  their  interest  and 
enthusiasm. 

Eleven  denominations  were  included:  Baptist,  Christian, 

Congregational,  Episcopalian,  Evangelical  Association,  Lutheran, 
Methodist,  Presbyterian,  Reformed  (Dutch),  United  Brethren 
and  United  Presbyterian.  A most  beautiful  spirit  of  interest  and 
co-operation  prevailed,  and  every  woman  felt  who  was  in  any  way 
connected  with  the  committees  that  it  had  been  an  inspiration  and 
a privilege  to  be  associated  in  the  work. 

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The  meetings  were  held  in  the  Central  Presbyterian  Church, 
with  simultaneous  evening  meetings  in  Asbury  Methodist  Church, 
and  an  overflow  meeting  on  Thursday  evening.  The  Young 
Women’s  Committee  arranged  a choir  of  three  hundred  voices. 
The  evening  attendance  was  about  three  thousand.  A meeting 
for  women  physicians  and  nurses  was  held  at  the  Homeopathic 
Hospital  Thursday  afternoon.  Friday  morning  denominational 
rallies  were  held  in  eight  different  churches  with  a large  attend- 
ance reported.  A meeting  for  schoolgirls  was  held  on  Friday 
afternoon  with  an  attendance  of  five  hundred. 

The  luncheon  was  held  in  Convention  Hall,  the  largest  audi- 
torium in  the  city.  Twenty-four  hundred  tickets  were  sold,  and 
double  that  number  could  have  been  disposed  of  had  the  hall  been 
larger.  The  tickets  were  placed  at  one  dollar  each.  The  hall  was 
beautifully  decorated  in  yellow  and  white  bunting,  and  the  great 
organ,  originally  in  the  Temple  of  Music  at  the  Pan-American 
Exposition,  was  played  during  the  luncheon. 

The  offering  paid  in  and  pledged  amounted  to  $11,000. 
Money  continues  to  come  in  and  the  total  will  undoubtedly  reach 
$15,000.  The  results  of  the  Jubilee  cannot  be  estimated  by 
dollars.  Its  greatest  value  will  be  in  its  educational  and  inspira- 
tional effect.  Some  of  the  gifts  are  to  be  continued  beyond  the 
Jubilee  year  in  the  form  of  salaries  and  scholarships. 

An  Interdenominational  Committee  is  being  formed  to  carry 
on  the  Post-Jubilee  work. 


®fje  SUlhanp  Jubilee 

The  Jubilee  meetings  in  Albany  and  Troy,  March  2d  and 
3d,  were  of  great  spiritual  power  and  inspiration. 

For  weeks  the  Christian  women  of  the  two  cities  had  labored 
and  prayed  together  for  the  anticipated  celebration. 

The  presence  of  members  of  the  Jubilee  party,  with  visiting 
officers  from  the  different  denominational  Boards,  will  abide  a cher- 
ished memory. 

The  feast  of  Jubilee  began  with  a prayer  and  consecration 
service  led  bv  Mrs.  David  O.  Mears.  Eight  inspiring  drawing- 
room meetings  were  held,  by  invitation  of  the  hostesses  ; a gathering 
for  the  Young  Women’s  Societies  from  all  the  churches  at  St. 
Agnes  School,  and  a missionary  story  hour  for  voung  girls. 

A meeting  tor  doctors  and  nurses  at  the  Historical  and  Art 
Society  Building  was  addressed  by  Dr.  Mary  Riggs  Noble. 


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Luncheon  was  served  to  800  in  St.  Peter’s  Parish  House  and 
Hotel  Pen  Eyck,  Mrs.  James  'Ferry  Gardiner  and  Mrs.  David 
O.  M ears  acting  as  toastmistresses. 

The  denominational  rallies  were  remarkable  in  attendance, 
interest  and  enthusiasm. 

The  Jubilee  offering  taken  at  the  denominational  rallies 
amounted  to  $4,650,  with  returns  still  coming  in. 

The  climax  of  the  day’s  rare  privileges  came  in  the  great 
interdenominational  mass  meeting  in  the  evening,  where  three  thou- 
sand persons  thronged  All  Saints’  Cathedral,  hundreds  standing 
throughout  the  whole  impressive  service.  Mrs.  Helen  Barrett 
Montgomery  and  Mr.  J.  Campbell  White,  Secretary  of  the  Laymen’s 
Missionary  Movement,  gave  addresses,  there  was  singing  by  a large 
chorus  of  young  women,  and  the  venerable  Bishop  Doane  gave  the 
vast  multitude  his  benediction,  saying  that  the  Cathedral  had  been 
reconsecrated  by  the  great  gathering  held  by  Christian  women  in 
the  interest  of  two  things,  which  were  not  only  very  near  his  heart 
but  were  the  most  pressing  questions  of  the  day, — Unity  and 
Missions. 

A letter,  written  by  Bishop  Doane  for  the  diocese  of  Albany 
urging  interest  and  participation  in  the  proposed  Jubilee,  was,  by 
vote  of  the  Advisory  Board  of  women,  sent  to  all  city  pastors,  with 
the  request  that  it  be  read  in  their  pulpits. 

A feature  of  interest,  possible  onlv  in  the  capital  of  a state, 
was  a charming  reception  given  to  1,500  guests  by  the  wife  of  the 
Governor,  Mrs.  John  A.  Dix,  at  the  Executive  Mansion,  in  honor 
of  Mrs.  Peabody,  Mrs.  Montgomery  and  other  speakers. 


Wot  ls>pringftelti  Jubilee 

On  Monday  afternoon,  March  6th,  the  meeting  opened  with 
a consecration  service  followed  by  a general  meeting.  At  the  same 
time  drawing-room  meetings  were  held  in  four  homes.  In  the 
evening  there  was  a Young  Women’s  Rally,  and  at  the  same  time 
in  another  church  a meeting  for  older  women. 

On  Tuesday  morning  eight  denominational  rallies  were  held, 
and  were  largely  attended.  At  noon  came  the  luncheon,  attended  by 
525  women,  at  which  President  Woolley  of  Mount  H olyoke  College 
presided.  In  the  afternoon  a service  for  children  was  held,  and 
also  a union  service  which  crowded  the  largest  church  in  the  city 
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to  the  doors,  with  many  standing.  In  the  evening  a union  closing 
service  was  held. 

Nearly  all  these  services  were  largely  attended.  The  attend- 
ance on  the  second  day  showed  that  many  had  come  from  the 
northern  part  of  the  state.  Most  encouraging  reports  in  regard  to 
the  interest  shown  come  from  the  denominational  rallies. 

All  the  Protestant  denominations  which  are  carrying  on  foreign 
missionary  work  co-operated  in  these  meetings.  In  the  preliminary 
work  of  the  Executive  Committee,  and  in  the  meetings  themselves, 
the  greatest  mutual  sympathy  and  good  will  were  shown.  The 
spirit  of  sisterhood  thus  expressed  was  one  of  the  important  results 
of  the  meetings. 

In  other  ways  they  were  a great  benefit.  They  gave  women 
the  opportunity  to  think  more  definitely  of  the  wide  scope  of 
foreign  missions  than  in  denominational  work  alone  is  possible ; they 
quickened  the  interest  and  love  of  all  who  were  present ; they  laid 
upon  them  to  a greater  degree  than  ever  before  the  responsibility 
resting  upon  the  Christian  women  of  this  land  to  work  for  their 
sisters  in  non-Christian  lands,  and  they  brought  joy  and  encourage- 
ment because  of  the  renewed  proof  that  the  infinite  need  of  the  soul 
everywhere  is  met  by  the  gospel  of  Christ. 

The  contributions  in  cash  and  pledges  made  at  the  denomina- 
tional rallies  amounted  to  $3,854.66.  In  addition  a special  offering 
of  nearly  $300  was  made  at  the  closing  service  for  the  famine  suf- 
ferers of  China. 

All  the  denominations  feel  the  necessity  of  conserving  the  im- 
pressions of  these  meetings,  and  earnest  efforts  will  be  made  to 
increase  both  the  interest  and  the  giving  among  the  women  of  our 
churches 


ileto  fhaben  Jubilee 

New  Haven  has  never  seen  such  a gathering  of  women  as 
assembled  in  the  Auditorium  to-day,  March  9th,  under  the  in- 
spiration of  union  for  the  cause  of  foreign  missions.  It  is  the 
second  day  of  the  Jubilee,  and  enthusiasm  is  at  high-water  mark. 
On-lookers  and  participants  who  have  come  from  different  sections 
of  the  state — for  it  is  a Connecticut  Jubilee — pronounce  the  meet- 
ings wonderful  and  the  speakers  incomparable.  All  committees 
on  preparation  have  worked  with  earnestness  and  in  beautiful 
harmony.  I he  Committee  on  Prayer  Circles  met  with  most  en- 


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couraging  response  everywhere,  and  such  circles  were  formed  in 
city  and  town  quite  generally. 

The  Young  Women’s  Committee,  more  than  seventy  in 
number,  have  done  valiant  service,  as  witnesses  the  attendance  at 
their  evening  rally.  The  largest  church  was  crowded  to  the  doors, 
one  delightful  feature  being  the  processional  of  the  large  choir 
singing,  “ Publish  glad  tidings.”  This  committee  arranged  pre- 
liminary parlor  meetings,  with  fine  speakers,  who  commanded  an 
audience  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  or  more.  Other  drawing-rooms, 
with  guests  invited  to  meet  the  Jubilee  speakers,  one  being  espe- 
cially for  college  women,  were  happily  informal,  but  none  the  less 
inspiring.  The  rallies  in  the  various  churches  were  large  and  en- 
thusiastic. Pledges  of  gifts  in  influence,  time  and  money  were 
made  in  all  ; the  amount  of  money  to  be  reported  later  when  op- 
portunity  has  been  given  for  the  return  of  pledges,  for  which 
blanks  were  distributed.  The  luncheon  hour  proved  immensely 
popular,  and  as  the  number  of  tickets  was  limited,  many  applicants 
had  to  be  refused  ; but  even  so  a small  township,  to  the  number 
of  1,360,  was  represented,  making  a most  attentive  and  responsive 
audience  when  the  speaking  began.  The  story  hour  for  the 
children  was  unique,  and  will  be  remembered  by  the  little  folk  for 
a long  time  to  come,  and  perhaps  be  recalled  bv  them  when  is  cel- 
ebrated the  next  Jubilee.  The  parallel  mass  meetings  but  added 
to  the  cumulative  enthusiasm,  and  gave  emphasis  to  the  universal 
testimony  that  the  Jubilee  is  a great  success,  and  promises  great 
results.  Plans  are  in  the  air,  ready  to  be  formulated,  which  con- 
template some  sort  of  an  organization,  in  order  that  the  spirit  of 
good-fellowship  and  unity  may  be  preserved. 


®f )£  iProtnbence  Jubilee 


Providence  celebrated  the  Jubilee  on  March  10th  and  11th. 
For  two  months  a Central  Committee  of  one  hundred  representa- 
tive women  were  instant  in  prayer  and  abundant  in  labor,  giving 
to  their  sub-committee  work  such  faithful  and  untiring  service 
as  to  guarantee  success. 

The  Finance  Committee  collected  $750  for  local  expenses. 
The  Press  and  Publicity  Committee  distributed  hundreds  of  copies 
of  the  General  Bulletin;  printed  thousands  of  prayer  and  invitation 
cards  which  accompanied  advance  fliers  ; sent  a personal  letter  to 
each  clergyman  in  the  state,  asking  his  interest  and  co-operation, 


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and  a pulpit  notice  for  the  Sunday  previous;  and  printed  a twelve- 
page  program,  giving  details  ot  each  session,  hymns  used,  and  the 
names  of  officers  and  chairmen  of  the  various  committees.  Three 
hundred  attractive  Posters  were  displayed  in  churches  and  public 
places.  Several  reporters  served  on  the  Committee,  and  advance 
notices  as  well  as  reports  of  the  sessions  were  printed  in  city  and 
state  newspapers  in  such  a manner  as  to  give  the  public  a most 
favorable  impression  of  the  Jubilee. 

The  celebration  commenced  with  three  drawing-room  meet- 
ings, at  which  the  attendance  was  250.  The  first  public  session 
was  a “ Busy  Woman’s  Hour”  in  a down  town  church,  at  which 
Canon  Douglass  of  New  York  struck  the  keynote  ot  the  mission- 
ary movement  in  calling  it  “ The  culmination  ot  man’s  response 
to  the  will  of  God.”  A conference  ot  125  phvsicians  and  nurses 
was  held  Friday  afternoon,  and  a general  meeting  tor  the  consider- 
ation of  Methods  and  Motives,  attended  by  900  women,  and  fol- 
lowed by  a reception  given  for  the  Jubilee  speakers.  Fridays  even- 
ing two  mass  meetings  called  out  an  attendance  of  1,400. 

The  chairmen  of  the  denominational  rallies  held  preparatory 
meetings  for  a month  before  the  Jubilee,  districted  the  whole  state 
and  planned  interdenominational  neighborhood  rallies,  in  the 
attempt  to  make  the  women  ot  every  church  cognizant  of  the  mean- 
ing and  purpose  of  the  Jubilee.  Meetings  for  prayrer  were  held  in 
each  district,  and  a canvass  for  new  members  of  each  local  society 
urged.  Saturdav  morning  proved  a rather  inopportune  time  for 
many  housewives  and  business  women,  but  the  attendance  at  the 
six  denominational  rallies  ranged  from  125  to  600,  and  the  gifts 
and  pledges  of  money  for  the  Jubilee  Fund  were  over  $4,000,  with 
the  hope  of  more  to  come. 

Luncheon  was  served  Saturday  noon  in  three  places  to  900 
women,  who  lingered  late  at  table  to  listen  to  reports  and  addresses. 
One  of  the  most  successful  features  of  the  meetings  was  the  “chil- 
dren’s story  hour”  Saturday  afternoon,  where  an  audience  of  500, 
most  of  whom  were  children  in  y^ears  as  well  as  spirit,  enjoyed  the 
tales  told  by  the  missionaries. 

At  the  young  women’s  meeting  Saturdav  evening,  the  atten- 
dance and  enthusiasm  reached  its  highest  point.  A chorus  of  40 
Pembroke  girls  in  Oriental  costumes  lead  the  singing;  900  seats 
were  reserved  for  young  women  who  had  signified  their  intention  of 
being  present,  and  the  balance  of  the  large  church  was  crowded  with 
older  women.  A supper  was  served  in  the  vestry  for  300  girls,  at 
which  a fine  spirit  of  fellowship  and  common  sympathy  for  world- 
wide missions  was  manifested. 


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Plans  for  conserving  the  results  of  the  two  days,  and  for  turn- 
ing their  inspiration  into  the  consecration  of  new  life  and  money  to 
missionary  service,  are  being  considered,  and  it  is  hoped  that  in 
Providence  the  end  of  the  Jubilee  will  most  truly  prove  to  be  the 
beginning  of  a forward  movement  in  the  history  of  women’s  mis- 
sionarv  work. 


®l )c  Worcester  Jubilee 

Though  not  announced  as  a Jubilee  city,  Worcester  claimed 
the  privilege,  and  between  Providence  the  iith  and  Boston  the 
14th  worked  up  a very  creditable  meeting.  Large  attendance,  an 
offering  of  several  thousand  dollars  and  a profound  impression  for 
our  work  are  reported. 


®lje  JloSton  Jubilee 

The  Jubilee  has  passed  over  Boston  and  is  gone,  but  the  place 
thereof  shall  know  it  forevermore.  The  Boston  that  participated 
in  the  Jubilee  can  never  be  the  same  again,  for,  through  the  inspi- 
ration of  the  meetings,  and  the  fellowship  developed  by  their  prep- 
aration, we  have  had  a new  vision  of  our  oneness  in  the  Master’s 
service. 

Following  preparatory  devotional  meetings  the  preceding 
week,  the  Jubilee  opened  in  Boston  on  Tuesday  afternoon,  March 
14th,  when  a service  of  devotion  and  workers’ conference  were  held, 
with  an  attendance  of  400,  and  four  drawing-room  meetings  ; and 
a reception  was  given  by  the  physicians  and  nurses  of  greater 
Boston  to  Dr.  Noble  and  Dr.  Carleton,  with  an  attendance  of  275. 
Plans  are  being  made  to  educate  a Chinese  or  Indian  woman. 

The  Young  People’s  Rally  followed  in  the  evening,  with  an 
attendance  of  2,000.  An  inspiring  feature  was  the  chorus  of  400 
which  led  in  the  familiar  Jubilee  hymns.  At  this  meeting  the 
responsibility  of  the  individual  was  the  main  theme  : “ The 
Master  has  come  and  calleth  for  you." 

On  Wednesday  morning,  rallies  were  held  by  nine  denomina- 
tions, with  a combined  attendance  of  3,100  and  a gift  of  $23,621, 
and  further  gifts  are  expected.  Plans  for  future  work  are  not 
definitelv  developed,  but  interdenominational  meetings  have  been 
suggested  as  effective,  carried  out  in  the  same  spirit  of  unity  which 
has  characterized  the  Jubilee. 


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At  noon  luncheons  were  held  in  four  places,  at  which  1,450 
were  present,  and  many,  unable  to  secure  luncheon  tickets,  availed 
themselves  of  the  opportunitv  offered  to  hear  the  after-luncheon 
speeches.  As  the  sun,  with  its  promise  of  spring,  shone  over  the 
tables  with  their  golden  flowers,  and  touched  with  glory  the  heads 
of  the  few  left  to  us  to  whom  the  vision  came  fifty  years  ago,  we 
felt  afresh  the  force  of  the  appeal  to  fill  up  the  broken  ranks  and 
to  press  forward  together  in  Christian  unitv  in  the  service  of  our 
far  -away  sisters. 

The  Jubilee  celebration  closed  with  a mass  meeting,  which 
was  attended  by  3,000.  After  the  singing  of  Jubilee  hymns  led 
by  the  chorus,  a brief  devotional  service  was  conducted  by  Mrs. 
Peabody.  The  Chairman  of  the  Boston  Jubilee,  Mrs.  S.  Van 
Rensselaer  Thayer,  then  called  for  reports  from  the  rallies,  to 
which  nine  responded.  Again  the  sense  of  fellowship  was  deepened 
as  we  listened  to  the  accounts  of  the  celebrations  in  other  cities  from 
the  Pacific  to  our  own  Atlantic,  and  felt  the  bond  with  those  whom 
we  have  never  seen,  who  are  yet  working  with  us  to  bring  to  the 
hearts  of  the  nations  a Christ.  And  we  knew  that  we  should  never 
be  the  same  again,  that  the  spirit  of  the  Jubilee  must  abide  with  us 
through  the  vears  to  come,  and  that  we  “ must  take  this  world  and 
make  it  over  until  the  words  come  true,  c The  earth  shall  be  filled 
with  the  glory  of  God  as  the  waters  cover  the  sea.’  ” 


iportlanb,  jlle.,  Jubilee 

From  Portland,  Oregon,  to  Portland,  Maine,  and  here  the 
Jubilees  end.  Portland  greeted  us  with  a snowstorm,  but  her  skies 
brightened  and  the  city  by  the  blue  sea  with  Mount  Washington’s 
snowy  shape  in  the  distance  is  surelv  as  lovely  as  her  sister  Port- 
land on  the  Western  slope  with  Mount  Hood  to  watch  over  her. 
Though  not  so  large  as  some  of  our  Jubilee  cities  there  was  no 
lack  of  planning  and  prayer  and  publicity ; and  the  beautiful  recep- 
tion, the  quiet  impressive  drawing-rooms,  the  exquisite  luncheon, 
with  the  sprig  of  pine  at  each  plate,  the  honored  names  of  Payson 
and  Longfellow  and  Hamlin,  are  some  of  the  distinctive  features  of 
our  last  Jubilee  city  as  scheduled  five  months  ago. 


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®f)£  ^practise  Jubilee 

Syracuse  was  on  the  first  Eastern  schedule  but  feared  it  could 
not  carry  out  the  Jubilee  plan,  and  dropped  out.  Later  a de- 
voted and  able  professor  in  Syracuse  University  decided  that  it 
could  be  done,  and  at  a late  day,  with  many  difficulties,  secured 
speakers  and  carried  the  Jubilee  to  a successful  finish.  A night 
letter  just  received  as  this  report  is  in  press  says: — 

“ Syracuse  meeting  most  successful.  The  German  Evangel- 
ical Church,  hitherto  without  any  missionary  society,  organized  to- 
day. This  action  will  affect  1,100  churches.  We  are  truly  jubi- 
lant. Offering  over  $4,000.  Continuation  Committee  planned  for 
future  work.  City  deeply  stirred.” 


Smaller  Jubilees! 

Pittsfield,  Fall  River,  Newport,  Elmira  and  Wilkesbarre,  Al- 
toona, Atlantic  City,  Binghamton,  Scranton  and  scores  of  other  cities 
have  roused  to  the  Jubilee  call  in  the  East,  while  in  the  West  “like 
a mighty  army  ” moves  the  host  of  women,  all  on  fire  with  Jubilee 
enthusiasm,  and  eager  to  conserve  the  best  results.  This  hasty 
bulletin  can  give  only  a small  idea  of  the  movement  which  widens 
out  in  increasing  circles  of  influence.  The  quickening  of  interest 
here  must  result  in  greater  work  abroad.  May  we  not  hope  for  a 
corresponding  Jubilee  movement  in  India  and  China  and  Japan  ? 


And  now  comes  New  York.  As  we  write,  the  vast 
preparations  are  going  on.  The  busy  committee  of  400 
has  already  done  its  work — the  programs  have  gone  to  the 
printers.  The  Young  Women’s  Committee,  numbering 
75,  has  arranged  for  a pageant  to  he  given  in  Metropolitan 
Opera  House,  where  the  Musical  Art  Club  will  assist  them. 

Forty  drawing-room  meetings  have  been  held.  A 
pioneers’  meeting  is  arranged  for  March  28th,  where  we 
expect  the  presence  of  Miss  Doremus  and  other  noted 
women.  The  authors’  meet  that  evening.  The  drawing- 
rooms luncheons  and  many  parallel  mass  meetings  have 
every  detail  arranged,  and  the  New  York  Committee  is 
building  up  a satisfactory  climax  to  the  wonderful  series. 


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One  of  the  Committee  writes  : — 

“ It  is  only  a glimpse,  and  a vista  into  the  future  of  what  women’s 
combined  efforts  can  do.  It  has  been  a vision  and  a revelation  to 
many  of  us.  We  spoke  in  our  large  committee  yesterday  of  not 
letting  the  great  lesson  of  the  Jubilee  pass  without  practical  results 
beyond  the  mere  gift  of  money  at  the  time. 

“ As  fifty  years  ago  that  little  circle  of  women  started  all  the  great 
work  of  to-day,  we  hope  this  opportunity  of  the  present  will  lead  to 
an  organization  with  at  least  two  meetings  a year  at  which  all 
the  churches  will  report,  so  that  we  may  feel,  as  now,  the  inspiration 
from  our  fellow-workers  on  the  mission  fields  and  at  home.  I am 
one  of  thousands  here  in  New  York  who  feel  the  same.  May  I add 
that  it  has  been  an  experience  of  my  life?  Now  that  I have  put  my 
hand  to  the  plough  I shall  never  look  back.” 

As  we  sit  in  the  quiet  of  the  midnight  completing 
this  record  which,  like  those  early  bulletins  from  the  West, 
must  be  hastened  to  printer  and  on  to  greet  the  pilgrims 
who  will  flock  to  our  greatest  city  March  27-30,  the 
words  of  the  hymn  so  often  sung  in  Edinburgh  comes  to  us 
almost  as  though  the  angels  were  singing  it  as  they  sang 
once  before  in  the  quiet  night  the  song  of  Redemption. 

“ God  is  working  His  purpose  out 
As  year  succeeds  to  year ; 

God  is  working  Ilis  purpose  out  and  the  time  is  drawing  near. 
Nearer  and  nearer  draws  the  time,  the  time  that  shall  surely  be, 
When  the  earth  shall  be  filled  with  the  knowledge  of  God 
As  the  waters  cover  the  sea.’’ 


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Chairmen  of  Western  Jubilees; 

Mrs.  L.  A.  Kelly,  Oakland,  Cal. 

Mrs.  E.  P.  Mossman,  Portland,  Ore. 

Mrs.  C.  L.  White,  Seattle,  Wash. 

Mrs.  Paul  Raymond,  Denver,  Colo. 

Mrs.  George  Tilden,  Omaha,  Neb. 

Mrs.  George  Simonds,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Mrs.  W.  R.  Chivis,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Mrs.  E.  W.  Bond,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Mrs.  Andrew  MacLeish,  Chicago,  111. 

Mrs.  George  Young,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Mrs.  Frank  Mills,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Mrs.  R.  L.  Thomas,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

, Detroit,  Mich. 


Chairmen  of  Castern  Jubilees; 

Mrs.  Levi  Scofield,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Mrs.  J.  B.  Marvin,  Louisville,  Kv. 

Mrs.  W.  E.  Norvell,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

Mrs.  Wallace  Radcliffe,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Mrs.  John  T.  King,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Mrs.  Wm.  Jennings,  Harrisburg,  Pa. 

Miss  Susan  Lodge,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Mrs.  Mary  Clokey  Porter,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 
Mrs.  John  Miller,  Edgewood,  Pa. 

Miss  Harriet  M.  Buck,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Mrs.  Wm.  Gurley,  Troy,  N.  Y. 

Mrs.  C.  H.  Burnham,  Springfield,  Mass. 

Mrs.  W.  B.  Phipps,  Waterbury,  Conn. 

Mrs.  George  Fowler,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

Mrs.  Van  Rensselaer  Thayer,  Boston,  Mass. 
Mrs.  John  Thompson,  Portland,  Me. 

Mrs.  John  Legg,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Mrs.  John  Calvin  Stewart,  Richmond,  Va. 
Prof.  M.  M.  Beebe,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 


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Frank  Wood.  Printer,  Boston 


&ngel  procession  from  tije  Pageant 
“Pilgrims  of  tfje  iiigfjt ” 


®ljen  Sljalt  tljou  cause  tije 
3n  tfjc  bap  of  atonement  stall  ye  mafee  tije 


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